The Commissioner for Province of

Sind Sindh (; ; ur, , ; historically romanized as Sind) is one of the four provinces of Pakistan. Located in the southeastern region of the country, Sindh is the third-largest province of Pakistan by land area and the second-largest province ...

, later the Governor of Sind, was the most important government official in the province during British rule. There were 104 years of rule, out of which 89 years were under their authority. Sind was a part of the Bombay Presidency, earlier under Sir Charles Napier. However, in 1936 it became a separate province.

Governor of Sindh

* 1843–1847: Sir Charles Napier became the first ever Chief Commissioner and Governor of Sind.

Commissioners for Sind

Sir (Henry) Bartle Frere, 1st Bt by Sir George Reid

Commissioners who served British India are as follows: *1847–1850:

Robert Keith Pringle Robert Keith Pringle (12 March 1802 – 12 January 1897) was a Scottish civil servant in the Bombay Presidency. He was one of 11 children — five sons and six daughters — born to Alexander Pringle of Whytbank and Mary, daughter of Sir Alexande ...

*1851–1859:

Henry Bartle Edward Frere Sir Henry Bartle Edward Frere, 1st Baronet, (29 March 1815 – 29 May 1884) was a Welsh British colonial administrator. He had a successful career in India, rising to become Governor of Bombay (1862–1867). However, as High Commissioner fo ...

*1859–1862: Jonathan Duncan Inverarity *1862–1867: Samuel Mansfield *1867–1868:

William Henry Havelock William Henry Havelock (8 December 1826 – 1 November 1876) was part of the Bombay Civil Service.Hughes, A.W., ''A Gazetter of the Province of Sind'' George Bell and Sons, London 2nd Edition, 1876. Pg. 61 Online at: http://panhwar.net/Adobe/Gaz% ...

*1867–1877: William Lockyer Merewether *1877–1879: Francis Dawes Melville *1879–1887: Henry Napier Bruce Erskine *1887–1889: Charles Bradley Pritchard *1889–1891: Arthur Charles Trevor *1891–1900:

Henry Evan Murchison James Sir Henry Evan Murchison James (20 January 1846 – 20 August 1923) was a British civil servant in the Indian Civil Service from 1865 to 1900. He was the Commissioner in Sind from 1891 to 1900. Official duties He formally opened Dayaram Jet ...

*1900–1902:

Robert Giles Robert H. Giles (born 1933) is a former curator of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University. Giles graduated from DePauw University in 1955 and received his master's degree in 1956 from the Columbia University Graduate School o ...

*1902–1903:

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*1903–1904: Horace Charles Mules *1904–1905: John William Pitt Muir-Mackenzie *1905–1912: Arthur Delaval Younghusband *1912–1916: William Henry Lucas *1916–1920: Henry Staveley Lawrence *1920–1925: Jean Louis Rieu *1925–1926: Partick Robert Cadell *1926–1929: Walter Frank Hudson *1929–1931: George Arthur Thomas *1931–1935: Raymond Evelyn Gibson *1935–1936: Godfrey Ferdinando Stratford Collins (officiating)

Governors of Sind

Governors who served British India are as follows: *1936–1941: Sir Lancelot Graham, 1 April 1936 to 31 March 1941 *1941–1946: Sir Hugh Dow *1946–1947: Sir Robert Francis Mudie *1953–1954:

Habib Ibrahim Rahimtoola Habib Ibrahim Rahimtoola (12 March 1912 – 2 January 1991) was a Pakistani politician, diplomat and industrialist. He served as High Commissioner to the United Kingdom between (1947–52). Rahimtoola also served as Governor of Sindh (1953–54) ...

References

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