Sir Jean Louis Rieu, KCSI (23 November 1872 – 4 November 1964) was a British administrator in India. A member of the

Indian Civil Service The Indian Civil Service (ICS), officially known as the Imperial Civil Service, was the higher civil service of the British Empire in India during British rule in the period between 1858 and 1947. Its members ruled over more than 300 million ...

, he held various appointments in the

Bombay Presidency The Bombay Presidency or Bombay Province, also called Bombay and Sind (1843–1936), was an administrative subdivision (province) of British India, with its capital in the city that came up over the seven islands of Bombay. The first mainl ...

, including service as

Commissioner in Sind The governor of Sindh is the appointed head of the province of Sindh, Pakistan. The office of the governor as the head of the province is largely a ceremonial position; the executive powers lie with the chief minister and the chief secretary of S ...

from 1919 to 1925.

Biography

Louis Rieu was the son of Charles Pierre Henri Rieu, a Swiss-born orientalist who spent his career in Britain and the grandson of the Swiss soldier and politician Jean-Louis Rieu; his brother was the classicist

E. V. Rieu Emile Victor Rieu CBE (10 February 1887 – 11 May 1972) was a British classicist, publisher, poet and translator. He initiated the Penguin Classics series of books in 1946 and edited it for twenty years. Biography Rieu was born in London, the y ...

. He was educated at University College School, London, and

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. He entered the ICS in 1893 and was posted to the

. He served successively as assistant collector, collector, and in other capacities in Sind until 1911, when he was appointed Secretary to the Government of Bombay in the General Department. In 1917, he was appointed Collector of Karachi, and in 1918 he became Secretary to the Government of Bombay in the Revenue and Financial Departments. He was Commissioner in Sind from 1915 to 1925, and served on the Executive Council of the Governor of Bombay from 1926 until his retirement in 1929 as member responsible for revenue, in succession to Sir Maurice Hayward. He was replaced by Walter Frank Hudson. Rieu was appointed CSI in 1920 and promoted to KCSI in 1929.

Family

Rieu was married firstly to Ida Augusta Edwards (died 1921), daughter of John Edwards, JP, of Knockrobin, County Wicklow; they had a daughter. He married secondly Eileen Dorothy Kirkpatrick, daughter of Cyril Kirkpatrick, in 1930. Kirkpatrick had been married to Charles William Aldis Turner, ICS, who obtained a divorce decree against his wife on grounds of adultery earlier that year, citing Rieu as co-respondent.{{Cite news , date=11 February 1930 , title=Knight Cited As Co-respondent , pages=10 , work=

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References

1872 births 1964 deaths British people of Swiss descent British people of Dutch descent Knights Commander of the Order of the Star of India Indian Civil Service (British India) officers People educated at University College School Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford