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Date transcribed2011-08-00
Transcribed byPeter Bailey
CommentNote that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name patterns established by Buckland in his original work.

Surname  Rice    
First Name(s)  Benjamin Lewis    
Birth Year  1837    
Entry  Son of Rev. T. Rice : educated privately : appointed Principal of the High School (now Central College), Bangalore, 1860-5 : Inspector of Schools, Mysore and Coorg, 1865-8, 1870-3 : Director of Public Instruction in Mysore and Coorg, 1868-9, 1873-83 : Secretary to the Mysore Government, Education Department, 1883-90 : Director of Archaeological Researches in Mysore, 1890-1905 : introduced the Hobli school system of primary education in Mysore, 1868 : was Secretary to the Education Commission (Sir W. W. Hunter's), 1882-3 : C.I.E. : author of Gazetteers of Mysore and Coorg : Mysore Inscriptions : Epigraphia Carnatica, 12 vols : Bibliotheca Carnatica.     
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