AIYAR, SIR TIRUVARUR MUTUSWAMY '895), native Indian judge of the high court of Madras, was born of poor parents in the village of Vuchuwadi, near Tanjore, on Jan. 28, 1832. His widowed mother was forced by poverty to remove with Mutuswamy and his brother to Tiruvarar, where the former learnt Tamil, and soon set to work under the village ac countant at a monthly salary of one rupee. Aiyar worked his way through a series of minor offices until he was able to take his degree in law. He then became a judge of the Madras small causes court, and in 1878 he was raised to the bench of the high court, which office he occupied with ability and distinction for over fifteen years, sometimes acting as the chief justice. He at tended by invitation of the viceroy the imperial assemblage at Delhi in 1877. In 1878 he received the honour of C.I.E. and in 18g3 the K.C.I.E. was conferred on him. He died suddenly in 1895. Aiyar took his full share in the affairs of the Madras university, of which he was nominated a fellow in 1872 and a syndic in 1877, and was well acquainted with English law, literature and philoso phy. He was through life a staunch Brahman, devout and amiable in character, with a taste for the ancient music of India and the study of the Vedas and other departments of Sanskrit literature.