Goday Naraen Gajapati Rao
| Hon. Rajah Sir Goday Naraen Gajapati Rao | |||||||||
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| Born | 1828 | ||||||||
| Died | 1903 | ||||||||
| Residence |
Vizagapatam, India Vizapatan, Madras c/o Messrs Arbuthnot & Co., Madras [1872] | ||||||||
| Occupation |
Ruler political | ||||||||
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proposed 1866.08.01
in list Aug 20 1866, list 1869.08.01and List 1872, 1878 G.W. Gujputter Rao. Agents, Messrs Arbuthnot and Co., Madras
1883.11 The Hon. G.W. Gujputter Rao. c/o, Messrs Arbuthnot and Co., Madras
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Sir Goday Narayana Gajapathi Rao KCIE (December 1, 1828 - May 1903) was an Indian aristocrat and politician who served as a member of the Madras Legislative Council from 1868 to 1884.[1]
GAJAPATI RAO is a scion of the ancient Goday family of Vizagapatam in the Northern Circars, Madras Presidency, and Zamindar of Ankapalle and other estates. Educated in the Hindu College, Calcutta. He Was a Member of the Madras Legislative Council from 1868 to 1884; and a Fellow of the University of Madras. The title of Raja was conferred upon him in 1881; the Companionship of the Most Eminent Order of the Indian Empire in 1892 ; and the title of Maharaja on May 21, 1898. Has established and maintains several schools; presented the statue of Her Majesty the Queen Empress of India to the city of Madras in honour of Her Majesty's Jubilee in 1887; and has given large donations to many public objects. Has received from His Holiness the Pope Leo XIII. through his Delegate Apostolic in East Indies, in 1891, a mosaic picture as a mark of appreciation of his kindness shown to the Catholics of Vizagapatam. The Raja's grandfather, Sri Goday Jaga Rao, distinguished himself in the service of Government about the middle of the 18th century. It was of him that the Honourable Court of Directors in a communication to the Government of Fort Saint George, dated April 17, 1789, wrote I " We concur in the acknowledgment your Government have rendered of the zeal for our interests manifested on various occasions by Goday Jugga Row." Sri Jaga Rao was succeeded by his son Sri Goday Soorya Narayan Rao, father of the Raja; born 1792, died 1853. Lord Connemara, when publicly complimenting the Raja on his presentation of the statue of the Queen Empress to the city of Madras, said of this gentleman I ' ' The Raja's father, Goday Soorya Narayan Rao, followed in the footsteps of his father, founded various charitable institutions, and during the famine of 1833 fed a large number of poor in the neighbourhood of Nellore. He also contributed largely to various public works." The Raja's crest is a rising sun over a Hindu device, with the motto, " I desire the Light," in Sanskrit and Latin
He disappears from the list of AI Fellows after 1903. If the match is the right one then he was an Indian aristocrat and politician.