Sir Stanley Ismay, (1 July 1848 – 8 June 1914)ISMAY, Sir Stanley’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016 was a British civil servant and judge in

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, where he spent most of his career in the

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, acting as Chief Commissioner in 1906. After resigning from the civil service, he was a member of the

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1905–1908, and Chief Judge of the Chief Court of Mysore from 1908 to 1912.

Career

Ismay was born in 1848, the son of William Ismay, of Milton-next-Sittingbourne,

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, and educated at Bromsgrove School.Debrett's Baronetage and Knightage, 1914 He was also distant cousin to shipowner Thomas Henry Ismay. He entered the Indian Civil Service in 1869, and arrived in India in November 1871 to take up the position of Assistant Commissioner in the Central Provinces. He was

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in 1883. Following a year of special duties in Kalahandi State in 1882, he was appointed Registrar in the Judicial Commissioner′s Court in May 1884. He officiated as Inspector-General of Police and Jails in the provinces in 1885 and 1890, and published a book on ''Rules for the Superintendence and Management of Jails in the Central Provinces'' (1890). From December 1889 he was a Judge in the Small Causes Court in

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, and in January the following year he was appointed Deputy Commissioner. In January 1892 he was appointed an additional Judge in the

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and from June 1895 a Divisional Judge. After officiating as Judicial Commissioner in the Central Provinces in February 1895, he was permanently appointed to this position in June 1897. The position of Judicial Commissioner was the chief judicial appellate authority in the province, and he occasionally acted as Chief Commissioner (the highest civil authority in the province) when the holder of that office was not present, including in the absence of

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for three months in 1906. He retired from the Civil Service in 1906. Ismay served as an Additional Member of the

from 1905 until 1908. He was appointed

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(similar to Chief Justice) of the Chief Court of

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in 1908, and served as such until 1912. The Chief Court of Mysore was renamed High Court of Mysore in 1920, and is now the

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. He was

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commanding the Nagpur Volunteer Rifles. Ismay was appointed a Companion of the

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(CSI) in the

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list on 9 November 1901, and promoted to a Knight Commander (KCSI) in the Order in the

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. He died at Ootacamund in India on 8 June 1914.

Family

Ismay married, in 1875, Beatrice Ellen Read, daughter of Hastings Read. Lady Ismay died on 8 May 1932. They had two sons and two daughters: *Florence Edith Ismay (b.1876), who married Edward Robert Kaye Blenkinsop, CIE, Chief Secretary of the Central Provinces. *Stanley Claude Ismay (b.1878), who married Margaret McBean and lived in Calcutta. *Beatrice Maud Ismay (b.1883), who married 1st Major Henry Newton Kelly, 33rd Punjabis, and 2nd (after his death) Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Malcolm Jerome Alves, DSO (1883–1940), of the

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.ALVES, Lt-Col Henry Malcolm Jerome’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016 * Hastings Ismay (1887–1965), was a

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officer and diplomat, who was created Baron Ismay, and served as first Secretary General of NATO.

References

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