Sir Lancelot Graham, KCSI, KCIE (1880–1958) was an Indian civil servant during the

British Raj The British Raj (; from Hindi ''rāj'': kingdom, realm, state, or empire) was the rule of the British Crown on the Indian subcontinent; * * it is also called Crown rule in India, * * * * or Direct rule in India, * Quote: "Mill, who was himsel ...

. He served as the first

Governor A governor is an administrative leader and head of a polity or political region, ranking under the head of state and in some cases, such as governors-general, as the head of state's official representative. Depending on the type of political ...

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 ...

from 1 April 1936 to 31 March 1941. During his governorship, in order to encourage notables of the province, letters of appreciation were issued to various politicians and landlords of Sind for their public service to their territories and the country as a whole. One of his principal advisers was Sir

Shah Nawaz Bhutto Shah Nawaz Bhutto ( sd, ; ur, ) (8 March 1888 – 19 November 1957), was a politician and a member of Bhutto family hailing from Larkana in the Sind region of the Bombay Presidency of British India, which is now Sindh, Pakistan. Early li ...

, father of the later prime minister of Pakistan

Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Zulfikar (or Zulfiqar) Ali Bhutto ( ur, , sd, ذوالفقار علي ڀٽو; 5 January 1928 – 4 April 1979), also known as Quaid-e-Awam ("the People's Leader"), was a Pakistani barrister, politician and statesman who served as the fourth ...

. Khan Sahib Shahal Khan Khoso also received letters of appreciation from Graham. Graham appointed

Khan Bahadur Ghulam Nabi Kazi Khan Bahadur Ghulam Nabi Kazi MBE (b: 1884 Naushero Feroze, British India – 1955) was an educator in Sindh, which is one of the four provinces of what is now Pakistan. He rose to the position of first Director of Public Instruction, S ...

MBE as his first Director of Public Instruction to head the Education Sector in Sindh. Upon Kazi's retirement in 1939, he appointed Dr Umar Bin Muhammad Daudpota to that position. While governor, he laid the foundation stone for the Sind Assembly building on March 11, 1940. He was appointed a CIE in 1924, knighted with the KCIE in 1930 and appointed a KCSI in 1936. He was educated at

St Paul's School, London (''By Faith and By Learning'') , established = , closed = , type = Independent school Public school , religion = Church of England , president = , he ...

and

Balliol College, Oxford Balliol College () is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. One of Oxford's oldest colleges, it was founded around 1263 by John I de Balliol, a landowner from Barnard Castle in County Durham, who provided the f ...

. His son, David Maurice Graham, was a broadcaster with the BBC External Services, and his grandson,

Christopher Graham Christopher Sidney Matthew Graham (born 21 September 1950) took over the role of Information Commissioner's Office, UK Information Commissioner from Richard Thomas (lawyer), Richard Thomas on 29 June 2009 and concluded his tenure on 28 June 2016. ...

, became the UK's Information Commissioner in 2009

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Indian Civil Service (British India) officers Governors of Sindh Knights Commander of the Order of the Star of India Knights Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire 1880 births 1958 deaths People educated at St Paul's School, London Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford British people in colonial India {{Pakistan-hist-stub