Sir Elliot Graham Colvin, KCSI (1861–1940) was a British administrator in India. A member of the Indian Civil Service, he served in the Political Department of the Government of India.
Life and career edit
Elliot Colvin was born on 18 July 1861, the son of Bazett Colvin, ICS.[1][2][3] He was educated at Charterhouse, where he was a scholar and an exhibitioner, and King’s College, Cambridge.[1][4]
Colvin joined the Indian Civil Service in 1882.[1][4][5] He was an assistant magistrate in the Bengal in 1883, then joined the Political Department in 1884 as an assistant. In 1887, he became private secretary to the Governor of Bengal.[1]
He was listed in the India Office List (1911) as agent to the Governor General, Rajputana in 1882.[6]
Family edit
He married Ethel Augusta on 7 December 1889 at St. Paul's Cathedral, Calcutta (now Kolkata).[7]
Honours edit
C.S.I. 1906.[4]
References edit
- ^ a b c d "Sir Elliot Colvin". The Times. 3 August 1940. p. 6.
- ^ Archives, The National. "The Discovery Service". discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk. Archived from the original on 16 March 2023. Retrieved 16 March 2023.
- ^ "1939 England and Wales Register". The National Archives of the UK (TNA). Kew, Surrey. 1939. Retrieved 16 March 2023 – via ancestry.co.uk.
- ^ a b c Burke, Sir Bernard; Burke, Ashworth Peter (1910). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage and Baronetage, the Privy Council, Knightage and Companionage. Harrison. p. 2051.
- ^ Webb, Sidney (1992). "8. India". The Webbs in Asia: The 1911–12 Travel Diary. Springer. p. 354. ISBN 978-1-349-12328-5.
- ^ UK, Registers of Employees of the East India Company and the India Office, 1746-1939. London. 1911. p. 10.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ Axon, Ernest (1894). Family of Bayley of Manchester and Hope. R. Gill. p. 36.
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