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Seyed Rustam Ali, Khan Bahadur, Registrar of the Political Resident's Court, Aden, was born in Aden, Arabia, on the 22nd March, 1863. He received his English education in the Aden Residency School and that in Arabic and Persian from his late father, Munshi Syed Wahad Ali who went and settled there soon after the British occupation of Aden. Syed Rustam Ali Khan joined the Court of the Political Resident, Aden, at a very early age, on the 19th June, 1877, as an Arabic Clerk and was promoted gradually to higher grades. The Government appointed him on the 1st January, 1906, Registrar of the Court and invested him with the powers of the Judge of the Court of Small Causes, and Magisterial powers of the Second Class. His father left him some landed estate in the Civil and Cantonment limits of Aden. In the year, 1902, he compiled a book called ^'A popular Guide to the Civil Courts." Address: Aden.