Directories
> Misc Directories
Dictionary of Indian Biography (Buckland) |
|
Dictionary of Indian Biography D to F
Date transcribed | 2011-03-01 | Transcribed by | Peter Bailey | Comment | Note that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name pattern established by Buckland in his original work. |
| Surname | Davies | | First Name(s) | Robert Henry | | Titles | Sir | | Year of Birth | 1824 | | Year of Death | 1902 | | Entry | I.CS. : son of Sir David Davies, K.C.H., Physician to William IV : educated at Charterhouse and Haileybury, 1 841 -3 : went to the N.W.P. in the Civil Service, 1844 : in the mutiny, served with the troops in the Benares Division : was besieged at Azimghar, while Magistrate : was in the pursuit of Kooer Singh : Secretary to the Panjab Government, 1859: Financial Commissioner in Oudh, 1864 : Chief Commissioner of Oudh, 1865-71 : Lieutenant-Governor of the Panjab, Jan., 1871, to April, 1877 : K.C.S.1. 1874 : C.I.E. 1877 : Member of the Council of India, March, 1885-95 : died Aug. 23, 1902. |
|
<< first
< previous
next >
last >>
|
|
A List of eminent persons who served in British India, together with short biographical notes of each
|