Robert Giles (27 September 1846 – 17 March 1928) was a British civil servant in colonial

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. Giles was born in Grimsthorpe, the son of Archdeacon John Douglas Giles, Canon of Lincoln and Rector of Willoughby, and Sarah Elizabeth (''née'' Allen). His brother Edward Giles was also a civil servant. Giles was a career civil servant who was stationed only in Sind. He attended Durham Grammar School and

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, earning his B.A. in 1869 and M.A. in 1874. He was appointed to the Sind Commission in 1868. He worked for the Bombay Revenue Survey, and was Deputy Collector, Deputy Superintendent of Police, and Educational Inspector. He served as the Chief Commissioner of Sind from 1900 to 1902. He was appointed a Companion of the

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in the

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. He retired in April 1902 and returned to live in

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, Sussex, where he was JP for West Sussex. He died in

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, aged 81.

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Administrators in British India Companions of the Order of the Indian Empire Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge English justices of the peace 1846 births 1928 deaths People from Lincolnshire {{Pakistan-history-stub