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Seymour Gonne Vesey-FitzGerald
Seymour Gonne Vesey-FitzGerald, QC (30 May 1884 – 28 September 1954) was a British colonial civil servant, barrister, and legal academic. Biography Vesey-FitzGerald was born in 1884, the son of Percy Seymour Vesey FitzGerald, CSI, a senior member of the Indian Civil Service, and the grandson of Sir Seymour Vesey-FitzGerald, Governor of Bombay. After attending Charterhouse School and Keble College, Oxford, he joined the ICS in 1907, serving in the Central Provinces as a registrar, district judge and eventually legal secretary to the Legislative Council. He returned to England in 1923 and taught Oriental laws in Oxford and London throughout the 1920s and early 1930s. In 1927, he became Lecturer in Hindu and Mohamedan Laws at the Inns of Court. In 1935, he became Supervisor of the Indian Civil Service Probationers at the University of London, and two years later became Reader in Indian Law. Between 1946 and 1951, he was then Professor of Oriental Laws at the School of Orien ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indian Civil Service (British India)
The Indian Civil Service (ICS), officially known as the Imperial Civil Service, was the higher civil service of the British Empire in India during British rule in the period between 1858 and 1947. Its members ruled over more than 300 million people in the Presidencies and provinces of British India and were ultimately responsible for overseeing all government activity in the 250 districts that comprised British India. They were appointed under Section XXXII(32) of the Government of India Act 1858, enacted by the British Parliament. The ICS was headed by the Secretary of State for India, a member of the British cabinet. At first almost all the top thousand members of the ICS, known as "Civilians", were British, and had been educated in the best British schools.Surjit Mansingh, ''The A to Z of India'' (2010), pp 288–90 At the time of the creation of India and Pakistan in 1947, the outgoing Government of India's ICS was divided between India and Pakistan. Although these are now ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
