Among the gentlemen who, though not landowners of the District, are connected with it as being leading citizens of Nagpur, the most prominent is Sir Bipin Krishna Bose, C.I.E. He belongs to the Sabha Bazar Raj family and received his education in the Presidency College, Calcutta. His brother was the first statutory Civilian in Bengal and rose to be a Collector. He came to the Central Provinces in 1872 and to Nagpur  in 1874, When the Nagpur municipality was reconstituted in 1883, he was appointed its first Honorary Secretary, and has ever since been connected with it. He has been Secretary of the Neill City High School since 1876 and when he took part in founding the Morris college in 1883, he became Secretary to the governing body and has since held the post. He was a member of the Famine Commission of 1889 and has been three times nominated to the Viceroy’s Legislative Council, and has received successively the distinctions of Rai Bahadur, C.I.E., and a Knighthood.