Sir Charles Henry Kesteven (2 April 1866 – 13 January 1923) was a British

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who served as solicitor to the Government of India from 1904 to 1919, and solicitor to the Government of Bengal from 1919 to 1923. He was

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in the

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. He died in Calcutta, aged 56.

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