Sir Robert Eyles Egerton (15 April 1827 – 30 September 1912) was a British administrator in the Imperial Civil Service who served as a member of the

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and as

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of the

Punjab Punjab (; Punjabi: پنجاب ; ਪੰਜਾਬ ; ; also romanised as ''Panjāb'' or ''Panj-Āb'') is a geopolitical, cultural, and historical region in South Asia, specifically in the northern part of the Indian subcontinent, comprising ...

Biography

He was born into the

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, the youngest son of William Egerton.Buckland, C. E.. Dictionary of Indian Biography. India, Indological Book House, 1971. He was educated at

Exeter College, Oxford Exeter College (in full: The Rector and Scholars of Exeter College in the University of Oxford) is one of the Colleges of the University of Oxford, constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England and the fourth-oldest college of the un ...

, and the

East India Company College The East India Company College, or East India College, was an educational establishment situated at Hailey, Hertfordshire, nineteen miles north of London, founded in 1806 to train "writers" (administrators) for the Honourable East India Company ( ...

. He began his career in India in 1849. During the

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he served as Deputy Commissioner at Lahore. In 1869 he was appointed Commissioner of

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, and in 1871 was made Financial Commissioner of the Punjab. Between 1871 and 1874 he also served as a member of the Governor General's

. In 1879 he was appointed

of the

. Egerton retired from service at the end of his term in 1882. Lord Lytton described Egerton as an administrator with 'loyalty and good sense' and 'a tower of strength to the Administration'.

Personal life

On 18 April 1853 he married Mary Warren, with whom he had seven children.Burke, Bernard, and Burke, Ashworth Peter. A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Colonial Gentry .... United Kingdom, Harrison, 1891. His daughter, Frances Mary Egerton, married Sir William Mackworth Young.

References

* 1827 births 1912 deaths Indian Civil Service (British India) officers Robert Eyles British people in colonial India Knights Commander of the Order of the Star of India Companions of the Order of the Indian Empire Alumni of Exeter College, Oxford {{UK-gov-bio-stub