Notables
Notable Members
A curated record of members whose achievements shaped Hyderabad, India, the Commonwealth and beyond.
Lt.-Col. James Oliphant
An East India Company director and chairman who served as Equerry to Maharajah Duleep Singh and was associated with the Oliphant–Chaudderghaut Bridge in Hyderabad.
His Excellency General Sir Thomas Astley Cubitt, K.C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O.
A senior British Army commander who led a division during the First World War and later served as Governor of Bermuda.
His Excellency Major-General Henry Richard Abadie, C.B.
General Officer Commanding, Eastern District, who later served as Lieutenant-Governor of Jersey.
Washington Teasdale
An inventor and early photographic innovator who developed the field naturalist’s microscope, helped found the Leeds Photographic Society and became a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society.
Nawab Syed Hussain Bilgrami, C.S.I.Imad-ul-Mulk Bahadur
A Hyderabad statesman and member of the Viceroy’s Legislative Council who contributed to policy, law and public administration in late colonial India.
Nawab Lutf ud-Dowlah Muhammad Lutf ud-Din Khan Bahadur Latafat JungAmir-i-Paigah · Lutf ud-Daula
A Hyderabad statesman who held ministerial portfolios spanning the army, health, public works and justice before presiding over the Hyderabad State Legislative Council.
Major-General Sir Ralph Bignell Ainsworth, C.B., D.S.O., O.B.E., K.St.J.
Commandant of the Royal Army Medical College who later directed medical services for the Joint War Organisation during the Second World War.
Sir Charles John Oswald FitzGerald, K.C.B.
A senior officer of the Hyderabad Contingent who commanded the 3rd Cavalry and held the rank of colonel.
Brigadier-General Robert Fox Sorsbie, C.B., C.S.I., C.I.E.
A senior military engineer who served as Chief Engineer, Northern Command, and later held senior works appointments in India.
Brigadier-General F. D. Lumley, C.B., C.B.E.
A Brigadier-General and long-serving officer of the Middlesex Regiment, The Duke of Cambridge’s Own.
Maj. Brodie Valentine Mair, O.B.E., D.S.O., M.C.
A Manchester Regiment officer whose service in India, Gallipoli and on the Western Front earned the D.S.O., M.C. and O.B.E.
John Berryman, V.C.
A Crimean War serviceman awarded the Victoria Cross for gallantry in the face of the enemy, Britain’s highest award for military valour.
Lt.-Col. William Thomas Marshall, V.C.
A Victoria Cross recipient honoured for exceptional gallantry in the face of the enemy, whose career also reached senior regimental command.
Dr. Edward Lawrie
Residency Surgeon in Hyderabad and a leading figure in the Hyderabad Chloroform Commission, he advanced safer anaesthetic practice in India and abroad.
Surgeon-General William Campbell Maclean
A Surgeon-General in the Indian Medical Service who founded Hyderabad Medical School and later taught military medicine at the Army Medical School, Netley.
Cyril Walter Lloyd Jones, C.I.E.
Managing Director of the Nizam’s Guaranteed State Railway, he oversaw the expansion and modernisation of Hyderabad’s railway network.
Surgeon-General James Lancaster Ranking
A Madras Medical Service officer who rose to Surgeon-General of Madras and became a leading senior medical administrator in British India.
Surgeon-General Charles Sibthorpe, C.B.
An Indian Medical Service physician who served as Principal Medical Officer for the Secunderabad District and Hyderabad Contingent.
Surgeon-General Donald Smith Young
A senior medical officer associated with the founding of Osmania Medical College, an important institution in Hyderabad’s medical history.
Frederick Michall Barland Rosenthal
An architect and engineer associated with King Edward Memorial Hospital, now Gandhi Hospital, a major public-health institution in Hyderabad.
Samuel Harper Frankel
A pioneering Secunderabad photographer who founded Frankel’s Studio in 1885 and recorded the Nizams, Hyderabad’s nobility and colonial-era society.
J. D. B. Gribble, I.C.S.
A Madras Presidency district collector and historian whose works include A History of the Deccan and History of Freemasonry in Hyderabad.
Major-General John Swiney
A Major-General of the 32nd Madras Native Infantry whose varied life also included work as a taxidermist and entomologist.
Cuthbert Edward Biddulph, I.C.S.
An Indian Civil Service officer and author who held administrative and survey appointments across western and central India, including Secunderabad.
Lt.-Col. Francis Mitchell Haultain, M.P.P.
A Royal Artillery lieutenant-colonel who also served in provincial parliamentary life in Ottawa and Montreal.
Col. De Renzie James Brett, M.L.C.
A soldier, farmer and politician who served on the New Zealand Legislative Council and founded the town of Kirwee near Christchurch.
Rai Bahadur V. D. Thandavaroyan
Chief of Railway Hospital, Lallaguda, recognised for clinical work on gangrene caused by carbon-monoxide poisoning.
Brigade-Surgeon-Lt.-Col. C. Little, M.D., I.M.S.
A senior Indian Medical Service officer serving in the Madras establishment, combining medical practice with military responsibilities.
F. C. Crawford
Deputy Director-General of Police for the Criminal Investigation Department in the government of H.E.H. the Nizam.
Thomas Matthew English
Superintendent of H.H. the Nizam’s Mint and the Government of India Mint at Hyderabad, with responsibility for a key public-finance institution.
Henry Dighton
A Palmer & Co. banker involved in an early proposal to establish a central bank in Hyderabad using the Nizam’s pawned jewels as collateral.
C. H. D. Moberly
Managing Director of Emporiki Bank and a financial leader active in the early twentieth-century banking world.
Charles Frederick Pearson
A chemist and founder of C. F. Pearson & Company, a respected Secunderabad business.
Capt. William Albert Featherstone, R.V.O.
A British Army captain who became a BBC music director and earned recognition as an orchestral conductor and composer.
Col. James Grove White
A British Army colonel, High Sheriff of County Waterford and historian known for substantial local-history publications.
Col. Aubrey W. Ogilvie Saunders
A military officer and District Grand Master of Madras who also chaired its Executive Council and served as Chief Inspector of Musketry.
William J. Trewinnard
A prominent Freemason and founding Worshipful Master of Roll Call Lodge No. 2523 who was also a London sword manufacturer.
Col. Lacy
A military officer who revived Lodge No. 227 under the Irish Constitution, later known as Lodge of Antiquity No. 1 in Montreal.
Frederick Leslie Crawford, C.I.E.
Political Agent for the Chhattisgarh Feudatories, based at Raipur in the Central Provinces of British India.
Col. Fitzroy Somerset Lanyon Penno
A British Army officer who served as the final Imperial Assistant Adjutant-General in colonial Victoria, Australia, from 1889 to 1895.
Lt.-Col. Arthur Murray Pirie, D.S.O.
A British Army officer decorated with the D.S.O. after the Nile Expedition who later commanded the Berkshire Yeomanry in Palestine.
Col. Alexander Fairlie Dobbs
Judicial Superintendent on the Great Indian Peninsula Railway and the Nizam’s Railways, combining legal and railway administration.
Capt. Adolphus Elizabeth Byam
Military Secretary to the Resident at Hyderabad, whose service is commemorated by an obelisk at Bolarum.
Maj. Steuart Scott Binny, D.S.O.
A Royal Welsh Fusiliers officer who served at Ladysmith, received the D.S.O. and was killed in action during the First World War.
Col. George Craven Armstrong
An East India Company officer whose family later included Sir George Carlyon Hughes Armstrong, the English journalist and newspaper proprietor.
Sir Charles Wentworth Burdett, 6th Baronet
A British Army officer and sixth holder of the Burdett Baronetcy; his son, the seventh baronet, was born in Secunderabad in 1835.
The Honourable Montagu Henry Mostyn
A British Army captain and son of George Charles Mostyn, 6th Baron Vaux of Harrowden.