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26 WHO'S WHO IN INDIA Qazi Fazl Ilahi, Khan Saheb ; of Sikandarpur, North- West Frontier Province. Title conferred in June, 191 2. Shaikh Faiz Mohammad, Khan Saheb; Merchant, Meshed. Title conferred in June, 1912. Chandra Mohan De, Rai Bahadur — l.m.s.. Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, London, Member of the Ophthal- mological Society of the United Kingdom and Opthalmological Congress of Oxford, Lecturer on Opthalmic Surgery and Opthalmic Surgeon, Thomason Hospital, Medical School, Agra, was born on 15th May, 1873. He comes of a respectable Kayastha family of the Murshidabad District in Bengal. His ancestors held responsible Ministerial Offices under the successive Nawab Nazims of Bengal, Behar and Orrissa. For the conspicuous services rendered to the Government of their times they received sanads bearing Shahipunja and Lakheraj jagirs in the districts of Comilla and Sylhet which, through family feuds, however, eventually became largely dis- membered. Rai Chandra Mohan De had his early education at Benares and entered the Medical College, Lahore, in 1889, where he had a brilliant career. After completing his medical education he entered the Provincial Medical Service as an Assistant Surgeon. For a few years he held charge of different dispensaries in the United Provinces and did some useful work in connection with plague operations and the outbreak of cholera in the Naini Tal District in 1896. On the creation, in 1903, of a new chair for the teaching of Opthalmic Surgery and a large Opthalmic Department in the Agra Medi- cal School he was selected as the first incumbent and he has been occupying the position ever since. He has made useful contributions to the opthalmic literature and was, for some time, on the editorial staff of the " Annals of Opthalmology. " He was awarded the King-Emperor's Darbar certificate in 191 2, in recognition of his services to the Agra Medical School and in 191 2, he was made a Rai Bahadur. Address : Agra Medical School, Agra.