The Indian Biographical Dictionary (1915)/Gopal Menon, C.
Gopal Menon, C., Dubash, Messrs Wilson and Co., Madras; b. Calicut, 1873: educ; Municipal Primary School, and the Zamorin’s College, Calicut; held a Government of Madras Scholarship of Rs. 12 a month for 2 years, and received commercial training in the Teacher’s College, Saidapet; was the only one that was placed in the first class in the Intermediate grade examination of Shortland; passed first in the highest grade of Government examination in Business Correspondence and won the Government Gold Medal; passed first in the examination in Banking, Economics, Book-keeping and Commercial Geography; won a first class Teacher’s certificate in Commercial subjects; started his career as a teacher for the commercial classes (evenings) in the Madras Y.M.C.A.; was for sometime Superintendent, Pachiappa’s Commercial School, Madras; joined the late firm of Arbuthnot and Co., 1894; became Dubash of that firm, 1891; obtained the Preliminary and Final certificates of the Institutes of Bankers, London, and was admitted as a Life-Associate, 1903-4; obtained the Fellowship certificate of the Incorporated Phonographic Society, London; the certificate of the Institute of Commerce, Birmingham; was a Member of the British Economic Association; was a Correspondence Student, Ruskin Hall, Oxford, 1904-5; is a Member of the Educational League, Oxford; worked in conjunction with Mr. C. A. Paterson, for the founding of the Shorthand Writer’s Association, of which he was for sometime Honorary Secretary and now Vice President; is an Honorary Secretary, Madras Mahajana Sabha, and the National Fund and Industrial Association; Member, Executive Committee of the South Indian Chamber of Commerce, and the South Indian Association, Madras; is an Honorary Magistrate; was Hony. Treasurer, Indian National Congress held in Madras, 1914, and Hony Secretary, Indian Industrial Conference, also held in Madras, 1914; contributes occasionally to Newspapers on Industrial and commercial subjects; is a IMember of the Victoria Technical Institute, and the Agri-Horticultural Gardens, Madras; a Member, Board of Examiners in Commerce and other allied subjects; Director, United India Life Assurance Company, and of the Hanuman Weaving Company; Superintendent, Educational classes of the Young Men’s Indian Association, Madras. Publications: a pamphlet on the life of John Ruskin, and Mr. C.A. Paterson, President-founder of the Madras Shorthand Writers’ Association. Address: Gangureddy Road, Egmore, Madras, India. Club: Cosmopolitan, Mount Road, Madras.