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			{{Short description\|British educationist (1878–1950)}}
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	'''Richard Littlehailes''' {{post-nominals\|country=GBR\|size=100%\|CIE}} (1878–1950<ref name="Aiyangar1995">{{cite book\|author=Srinivasa Ramanujan Aiyangar\|title=Ramanujan: Letters and Commentary\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Of5G0r6DQiEC&pg=PA14\|accessdate=17 June 2013\|year=1995\|publisher=American Mathematical Soc.\|isbn=978-0-8218-9125-4\|pages=14–}}</ref>) was a ~~[[United Kingdom\|~~British]] educationist and administrator who spent most of his career in [[India]]. He was Vice chancellor of the [[University of Madras]] from 1934 to 1937.<ref>{{cite web\|title=The Vice Chancellors\|url=http://www.unom.ac.in/index.php?route=university/formervcs\|accessdate=17 June 2013\|publisher=[[University of Madras]]}}</ref>		'''Richard Littlehailes''' {{post-nominals\|country=GBR\|size=100%\|CIE}} (1878–1950<ref name="Aiyangar1995">{{cite book\|author=Srinivasa Ramanujan Aiyangar\|title=Ramanujan: Letters and Commentary\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Of5G0r6DQiEC&pg=PA14\|accessdate=17 June 2013\|year=1995\|publisher=American Mathematical Soc.\|isbn=978-0-8218-9125-4\|pages=14–}}</ref>) was a British educationist and administrator who spent most of his career in [[India]]. He was Vice chancellor of the [[University of Madras]] from 1934 to 1937.<ref>{{cite web\|title=The Vice Chancellors\|url=http://www.unom.ac.in/index.php?route=university/formervcs\|accessdate=17 June 2013\|publisher=[[University of Madras]]}}</ref>

	==Biography==		==Biography==

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'''Richard Littlehailes''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|CIE}} (1878–1950<ref name="Aiyangar1995">{{cite book|author=Srinivasa Ramanujan Aiyangar|title=Ramanujan: Letters and Commentary|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Of5G0r6DQiEC&pg=PA14|accessdate=17 June 2013|year=1995|publisher=American Mathematical Soc.|isbn=978-0-8218-9125-4|pages=14–}}</ref>) was a [[United Kingdom|British]] educationist and administrator who spent most of his career in [[India]]. He was Vice chancellor of the [[University of Madras]] from 1934 to 1937.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Vice Chancellors|url=http://www.unom.ac.in/index.php?route=university/formervcs|accessdate=17 June 2013|publisher=[[University of Madras]]}}</ref>

==Biography==

Littlehailes did his initial schooling from [[Bede School, Sunderland]]<ref name="Whitehead2003">{{cite book|author=Clive Whitehead|title=Colonial Educators: The British Indian and Colonial Education Service 1858-1983|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dij297KbFDAC&pg=PA37|accessdate=17 June 2013|year=2003|publisher=I.B.Tauris|isbn=978-1-86064-864-9|pages=37–}}</ref> and gained an exhibition at from [[Balliol College, Oxford]]<ref name="Aiyangar1995" />

Littlehailes entered the [[Indian Education Service]] in 1903 and later became the [[Director of Public Instruction]] in Madras in 1919. From 1927 to 1933 Littlehailes served as the Educational Commissioner to the [[British Raj|Government of India]] and later became the educational advisor of the [[Baroda State]] under Sir [[Sayajirao Gaekwad III]], Maharaja of Baroda from 1933 to 1934.<ref name="Whitehead2003" />

In his later career he served as the Vice Chancellor of [[University of Madras]] from 1934 until his retirement in 1937. He died at his home in [[Fleet, Hampshire]] on 16 December 1950.<ref name="Whitehead2003" />

==Legacy==

He was responsible for sending [[Srinivasa Ramanujan]] to UK for higher studies under [[G. H. Hardy]] as his capacity as the professor of Mathematics of [[Presidency College, Chennai|Presidency College, Madras]] where [[Srinivasa Ramanujan|Ramanujan]] was student at that time.<ref name="BerndtRankin2001">{{cite book|author1=Bruce C. Berndt|author2=Robert Alexander Rankin|title=Ramanujan: Essays and Surveys|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TT1T8A94xNcC&pg=PA110|accessdate=17 June 2013|year=2001|publisher=American Mathematical Soc.|isbn=978-0-8218-2624-9|pages=110–}}</ref>

During a function held on the eve of departure of [[Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan]] to [[Oxford University]] in 1936 he quoted—<ref name="Vinita">{{cite book|author=Vinita|title=The First Three Presidents of India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X3cc0mlKiBwC&pg=PA69|accessdate=17 June 2013|publisher=Sura Books|isbn=978-81-7478-736-1|pages=69–}}</ref>
<blockquote>Radhakrishnan had raised himself step by step. When would he reach the summit of the Mount Everest of his career? Would he aspire to higher things in the life and emulate such a man as [[Woodrow Wilson]], who has at one time a professor; and ended up as President of the United States of America?</blockquote>
His prophecy came true when [[Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan|Radhakrishnan]] became the second [[President of India]] in 1962.<ref>Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan: The Philosopher President, Press Information Bureau, Government of India [http://pib.nic.in/feature/feyr98/fe0898/f2808981.html]</ref>

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