Frederick Price (civil servant)
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Sir John Frederick Price KCSI (3 October 1839 – 12 June 1927) was an Indian civil servant and translator who served as a member of the Madras Legislative Council.[1][2]
Contents
1 Early life
2 Career
3 Works
4 References
Early life[edit]
Price was born to John Price on October 3, 1839. He had his education at Melbourne University and qualified for the Indian civil service.[2]
Career[edit]
Price joined the Indian civil service in 1862 and served till 1897. He also served as Chief Secretary of the Government of Madras. He was made a Companion of the Order of the Star of India in the 1893 New Year Honours,[3] and upgraded to a Knight Commander of the Order of the Star of India in the 1898 New Year Honours.[4][2]
Works[edit]
Pillai, Ananda Ranga (1904). The Private Diary of Ananda Ranga Pillai, Volume I. Translated by J. Frederick Price; K. Rangachari. Madras: Government Press.
Pillai, Ananda Ranga (1907). The Private Diary of Ananda Ranga Pillai, Volume II. Translated by J. Frederick Price; K. Rangachari. Madras: Government Press.
References[edit]
^ Price, Sir Frederick (1926). "PRICE, Sir (John) Frederick". Who Was Who (online edn, April 2014 ed.). A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2015; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014. Retrieved 2015-10-11.
^ abc Buckland, C. E. (1906). Dictionary of Indian Biography. London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co. p. 343.
^ "The London Gazette". Issue: 26359. The Crown. 1893-01-02. p. 1. Retrieved 2015-10-11.
^ "The London Gazette". Issue: 26925. The Crown. 1897-12-31. p. 1. Retrieved 2015-10-11.
Categories:
- 1839 births
- Knights Commander of the Order of the Star of India
- Members of the Madras Legislative Council
- 1927 deaths
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