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Chief Commissioner Of Coorg
Below is a list of chief commissioners of Coorg Province Coorg Province was a province of British India from 1834 to 1947 and the Dominion of India from 1947 to 1950. Mercara was the capital of the province. It was administered by a Commissioner and later, Chief Commissioner appointed by the Governme ...: Notes a The Acting Governors were appointed for a temporary period until the post of Governor was filled. SourcesRulers of Coorg {{Administrators of provinces in British India Coorg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coorg Province
Coorg Province was a province of British India from 1834 to 1947 and the Dominion of India from 1947 to 1950. Mercara was the capital of the province. It was administered by a Commissioner and later, Chief Commissioner appointed by the Government of India. The Chief Commissioner, was usually based in Bangalore. From 1834 to 1881, the Chief Commissioner, was also the Commissioner of Mysore. From 1881 to 1940, the Chief Commissioner was usually the British Resident to the princely state of Mysore. The province of Coorg was established in May 1834, when the Kingdom of Coorg was abolished and its territories annexed to British India in the aftermath of the Coorg War. Coorg Province was largely inhabited by the Kodava people who spoke the Kodava language. During the 19th century, a number of coffee plantations were established in Coorg with the result that Coorg became one of the largest producers of coffee in the British Empire. The Kodava people of Coorg were renowned for their bra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Bourdillon
James Dewar Bourdillon (1811–1883), was a British civil servant in Madras (now Chennai). Life Bourdillon was the second son of the Rev. Thomas Bourdillon, vicar of Fenstanton and Hilton, Huntingdonshire. He was educated partly by his father, and partly at a school at Ramsgate; having been nominated to an Indian writership, he proceeded to Haileybury College in 1828, and in the following year to Madras. After serving in various subordinate appointments in the provinces, he was appointed secretary to the board of revenue, and eventually in 1854 secretary to government in the departments of revenue and public works. Bourdillon had previously been employed upon an important commission appointed under instructions of the late court of directors to report upon the system of public works in the Madras presidency, his colleagues being Major (now Major-general) F. C. Cotton, C.S.I., of the Madras engineers, and Major (now Lieutenant-general) Sir George Balfour, K.C.B., of the Madras arti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ketoli Chengappa
Dewan Bahadur Ketolira Chengappa, C.I.E., was born on 3 March 1878 to Ketolira Muddaiah (worked as a village official) & Bolliavva from Yavakapadi Village, Kabinakad, Napoklu. He completed his matriculation in the year 1893. Thereafter, he went on graduate from University of Madras. Later on he cleared the "Indian Civil Service" (ICS), officially known as the "Imperial Civil Service", is the elite higher civil service of the British Empire in British India during British rule. He joined the services as a parpathigar in 1909 and rose to become the Assistant Commissioner in 1916. He became the first Indian to be appointed as a District Magistrate by the British in 1921. After his tenure as Commissioner of Coorg in 1935, he was appointed by the British as the Chief of National War Front in Coorg in 1942. Subsequently, he was elevated to the position of Chief Commissioner of Coorg Province from 26 April 1943 – March 1949 and then titled Diwan Bahadur. In 1947 when India obtained ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John De La Hay Gordon
Brigadier John de la Hay Gordon (30 March 1887 – 22 December 1959) was a British army officer, administrator and diplomat who served as Resident to the Mysore Kingdom from 1937 to 1942 and Chief Commissioner of Coorg Province from 1937 to 1940. Early life and education Gordon was born on 30 March 1887 to Alexander Hamilton Miller Haven Gordon and Ada Austen Eyre. He was educated at Rossall School at Fleetwood in Lancashire, United Kingdom and the Royal Military College at Sandhurst. Gordon joined the army in 1906 and was commissioned into the Royal Irish Regiment. Army Gordon was transferred to the Indian Army in 1908 and was appointed political officer of the Government of India in 1911. Gordon fought in the First World War and was mentioned in despatches twice. In 1936, Gordon was appointed military Governor-General of the Western Indian States Agency. On his retirement from the army in 1937, Gordon was appointed resident to the Mysore kingdom. While resident, Gord ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Terence Chichele Plowden
Lieutenant Colonel Charles Terence Chichele Plowden (6 February 1883 - 13 July 1956) was a British army officer, military administrator and diplomat who served as political agent of the Baluchistan and Resident and Chief Commissioner of Coorg from 1933 to 1937. Early life and education Plowden was born in Shimla on 6 February 1883 to Lieutenant Trevor John Chichele Plowden, a British army officer of the Punjab Commission. He was educated at Cheltenham College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. After passing out on 27 August 1902, his name was added to the Unattached List of the Indian Army, until he was in October posted to the Bengal command. Career Plowden was appointed to the Political Department and served as Superintending Assistant Commissioner of the North West Frontier Province (1908–09), Political Assistant (1909), Assistant Commissioner, Dera Ismail Khan (1909) and political agent to the Baluchistan States (1920). In 1933, Plowden was appointed Resident to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Pell Barton
Sir William Pell Barton (29 May 1871 – 28 November 1956) had a distinguished career in the Indian Political Service.Obituary, ''Sir W. Barton'', ''The Times'', 29 November 1956, p.15 He was British Resident in Baroda (1919), Mysore (1920–25) and Hyderabad (1925–30) and was well known as an authority on the North West Frontier and the Princely states during the days of British rule in India. On leaving the service he worked as an historian of the Princely states and was a frequent contributor to periodicals on issues concerning India and Pakistan. Early life William Pell Barton was born in Northampton on 29 May 1871, the son of William and Sarah Barton, both of Northamptonshire. He was educated at Bedford Modern School, Worcester College, Oxford, and University College London. Career In 1893 he passed the Indian Civil Service examinations and left England for the Punjab. He was head of several administered districts in the North West Frontier and would later move to th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugh Daly
Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Hugh Daly (29 May 1860 – 25 August 1939) was a British Indian Army officer and colonial administrator. Daly was the seventh child of General Sir Henry Dermot Daly and Susan Kirkpatrick. Like his brother, Arthur Daly, he was educated at Winchester College. He then studied at Balliol College, Oxford before being commissioned into the Gloucestershire Regiment in 1881. Daly was transferred to the British Indian Army in 1883 and saw action in the Third Anglo-Burmese War, during which he was Mentioned in Dispatches. Daly was Superintendent of North Shan States between 1888 and 1891. He was invested as a Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire (CIE) in 1892. Daly went on the become the Assistant Secretary, Foreign Department between 1892 and 1896 and the Deputy Secretary, Foreign Department between 1896 and 1903. He was promoted to major on 10 July 1901, and later gained the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in the service of the Indian Army. He was invested a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stuart Fraser (diplomat)
Sir Stuart Milford Fraser, (2 June 1864 – 1 December 1963) was a distinguished officer of the Foreign and Political Department of the Government of India. Five years after joining the Indian Civil Service, he was appointed tutor to the Maharajas of Kolhapur and Bhavnagar, and later (1896–1902) was tutor and guardian to the Maharaja of Mysore. The Fraser Town locality in Bangalore was named after him. Early life Stuart Milford Fraser was educated at Blundell's School and Balliol College. He passed the examination for the Indian Civil Service in 1882 and was allocated to the Bombay Presidency. Tutoring of princes Within 5 years Fraser was selected as guardian and tutor to the Raja of Kolhapur, later to becomChhatrapati Shahu Maharajafter being educated at Rajkumar College, Rajkot. He later had responsibility for the leadership preparations of the Maharajah of Bhavanagar, Shri Bhavsinhji II (1875–1919) after schooling at Rajkumar College, Rajkot like his father, Takhtsinhj ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donald Robertson (New Zealand)
Donald Robertson (1860 – 31 May 1942) was the first Public Service Commissioner in New Zealand. Prior to being the Public Service Commissioner, he was Secretary of the Post & Telegraph Department. He wrote the ''Early History of the New Zealand Post Office''. When he retired he lived in the south of France, but came back to New Zealand in the depression. He was born in Dunedin, and died in a Wanganui private hospital. Robertson married Edith Martin in 1883. They had two sons, Philip Robertson and Major H. D. Robertson of the NZMC. References *''Obituary'' Dominion 2 June 1942 (page 3) *''Who's Who in New Zealand'' (2nd edition, 1925) * 1860 births 1942 deaths New Zealand public servants New Zealand Companions of the Imperial Service Order {{NewZealand-gov-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lewin Bentham Bowring
Lewin Bentham Bowring (1824–1910) was a British Indian civil servant in British India who served as the Chief Commissioner of Mysore between 1862 and 1870. He was also an author and man of letters. Family He was the second son of Sir John Bowring (1792-1872), of Exeter, Devon, Governor of Hong Kong, and was a brother of John Charles Bowring and Edgar Alfred Bowring. Career Bowring joined the Bengal Civil Service in 1843. He became Assistant Resident at Lahore in 1847, and later joined the Punjab commission. From 1858 to 1862, he was private secretary to the Viceroy of India, Lord Canning. Bowring served as Chief Commissioner of Mysore from 1862 to 1870. This was during the period between 1831 and 1881 when the Maharaja of Mysore had been dispossessed of his state by the British Raj and Mysore was being administered by the ''Mysore Commission''. The Bowring Institute in Bangalore, which was founded by Lewis Rice in 1868, is named after him. During the last year of his incumb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Mackworth Young
Sir William Mackworth Young (15 August 1840 – 10 May 1924) was a member of the Indian Civil Service, who became Lieutenant-Governor of the Punjab 1897–1902. Young was the son of Captain Sir George Young, 2nd Baronet. He attended Eton and King's College, in Cambridge, receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1863 and a master of arts in 1866. Young joined the I.C.S. in Bengal in 1863, subsequently holding the title of Financial Commissioner of the Punjab from 1889 to 1895 and Lieutenant Governor of the Punjab 1897–1902. He stepped down in early March 1902, and left Bombay for the United Kingdom on 8 March 1902. He also briefly served as a vice-chancellor of University of the Punjab. Young also served as a member of the Imperial Legislative Council in 1893. His sons included Gerard Mackworth Young (1884-1965),Dilys Powell"Young, Gerard Mackworth- (1884–1965)" rev. Katherine Prior, ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Lee-Warner
Sir William Lee-Warner (18 April 1846 – 18 January 1914) was a British author and colonial administrator in the Indian Civil Service. He was Chief Commissioner of Coorg in 1895. In 1907 he headed the eponymous Lee Warner Committee that examined Indians receiving education in Britain. Early life and education Lee-Warner was born in Little Walsingham into a prominent Norfolk family. He was the fourth son of the Rev. Canon Henry James Lee-Warner of Thorpland Hall (whose father had changed the family name from Woodward) and Anne Astley, daughter of Henry Nicholas Astley. His maternal great-grandfather was Sir Edward Astley, 4th Baronet. His brother John Lee-Warner also joined the Indian Civil Service and another brother, Henry Lee-Warner, was the Liberal Party candidate for South-West Norfolk in Parliament in 1892. His brother Edward Lee-Warner wrote articles for the ''Dictionary of National Biography''. He was educated at Rugby School and matriculated in 1865 at St John's Colleg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
