Sir Harry Alexander Fanshawe Lindsay KCIE,

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(11 March 1881 – 2 March 1963) was a civil servant and administrator.

Education

Lindsay was educated at St Paul's School and Worcester College, Oxford

Career

In 1910 Lindsay became Under-Secretary to the government of

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. He moved to the Commerce and Industry Department of the Government of

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in 1912. In 1916 he was Director-General of Commercial Intelligence in

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and in 1922 Secretary to the Government of India, Commerce Dept. In 1923 he became Government of India Trade Commissioner in London. In 1923 he was delegate for India to the Economic Committee of the

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, and in 1932 Adviser to the Indian Delegation, Imperial Economic Conference at Ottawa. In 1934 he was appointed Director of the

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, a post in which he remained until 1953. He served on government bodies including the Colonial Products Research Council. Sir Lindsay was Chairman of Council of the Royal Society of Arts, editing the publication ''British Commonwealth Objectives'' in 1946. He was president of the Royal Geographical Society, the

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and vice-president of the

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Personal life

In 1909 Lindsay married Kathleen Louise Huntington. They had two sons.

References

1881 births 1963 deaths Fellows of the Royal Geographical Society Presidents of the Royal Geographical Society Commanders of the Order of the British Empire Knights Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire British people in colonial India {{UK-gov-bio-stub