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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  Ryan    
First Name(s)  Edward    
Titles, Honours, etc.  Sir    
Birth Year  1793    
Death Year  1875    
Entry  Born Aug. 28, 1793 : son of William Ryan: educated at Trinity College, Cambridge : called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn, 1817 : appointed, in 1826, a Puisne Judge of the Supreme Court at Calcutta: knighted, and became Chief Justice of Bengal, 1833, until he retired in 1843 : President of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, B B : became a Privy Councillor, and Member of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, 1843 : Railway Commissioner, 1846 : Member of the Board of Trade, 1848 : Assistant Controller of the Exchequer, 1851-62 : Civil Service Commissioner, 1855, and President of the Commission in 1862 : and its guiding spirit : Vice-Chancellor of the University of London, 1871-4 : Vice-President of the Royal Asiatic Society, 1847-75 : F.G.S., and F.R.S. : died Aug. 22, 1875 : author of some legal works.     
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