INDIAN BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY, 1915.
Pigott.
Vet river, Zand river, Pretoria, Johannesburg, and Belfast; received Queen’s medal with six clasps.
Pinhey, Lt.-Colonel Alexander Fleetwood, C.S.I. (1911), C.I.E. (1901) Indian Army; b. 1861; m. Violet Beatrice, d. of late General Sir Henry Garden, 1891 , joined service as Lieutenant, King’s Liverpool Regiment, 1883; served in Banswara as Assistant Political Agent and as Superintendent, Moghia Operations, 1886; Political Agent, Baghlkhand, 1895; Resident in Mewar, 1910; Resident in Gwalior, 1907; Officiating A.G. in Rajputana, 1908-09; Private Secretary to Viceroy of India since 1910; Resident, Hyderabad (D), 1912; Honorary Colonel, Hyderabad Volunteer Rifles, 1912. Addresss: Hyderabad (D), India. Club: Junior United Service.
Pinhey, Arther Francis; acting Judge, High Court, Madras; educ: Trinity College, Oxford; entered service as Assistant Collector and Magistrate, Salem; 1885; attached to Revenue Survey No. IV Party, 1885; attached to Revenue Settlement No. II Party, 1885; passed Survey the same year; posted as Assistant Collector and Magistrate, passed Lower Standard, 1886; acting Special Assistant Collector and Magistrate and Agent to Governor in Ganjam, 1887-88; passed Higher Standard, 1888; services placed at the disposal of the Government of India (Home department), 1888; Officiating Assistant Commissioner, 1888; confirmed, 1889; reverted to Madras, 1890; acted in various districts and was posted as District and Sessions Judge, Tinnevelly, where he tried the famous riot case and convicted Mr. Chithambaram Pillai, 1908; raised to the Bench of the Madras High Court, but the appointment was voted; retired, 1909. Address: c/o of India Office, London.
Pirpur (see Abu Jafar Saiyed.)
Pitambar Das, I.C.S., Rai Bahadur, Revenue Member, Indore; b. 1862; s. of Rai Mathura Das; educ: St. John’s College, Agra; joined British service as Tahsildar in N.W.F. Provinces; Manager of the Wards Estate, Ajmere, 1885-1888; Sheristadar, Board of Revenue, U.P., till 1893; services lent to Indore State, 1905; Member of the Council of Regency, since 1898; Chief Famine Officer of the State, 1907 08. Recreations: Tennis, Cricket and Shooting. Address: Indore, Central India.
Pithapuram, Raja of; Raja Ram Venkata Kumara Mahipati Surya Rao Bahadur Garu; s. of Raja Ram Venkata Mahipati Gangathara Rama Rao Bahadur Garu; b. 1885; educ: Newington College, Madras; bears the hereditary title of Raja Sahib Maharbanji Dostan Sardar Sirkar. Address: ‘Spring Gardens’, Teynampet, Madras; Pithapuram, Godavari District, Madras Presidency, India.
Pitman, Charles Edward, C.I.E. (1880), F.R.G.S., Indian Telegraph Department (retired); o.s. of late Captain Pitman; b. in Plymouth, 1845; educ: Royal Naval School; joined the Indian Telegraph Department, 1868; worked in the Lushi Expedition
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