Auckland Colvin
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Sir Auckland Colvin (1838-1908) was a British bureaucrat who made his reputation while working in Turkey where he was regarded almost as powerful as the Caliph. He is also credited with having started Colvin Taluqdars' College in Lucknow which developed into one of the most prestigious public schools in India.
He was comptroller-general in Egypt (1880-2), and financial adviser to the khedive (1883-7). From 1883-92 he was back again in India, first as financial member of council, and then, from 1887, following in the footsteps of his father, John Russell Colvin, as lieutenant-governor of the North-West Provinces and Oudh.
He published a biography of his father in 1895, and in 1905 gave a stained glass East window to the church of St. Mary at Soham, both as a thanksgiving for the termination of the Second Boer War, and as a permanent memorial to his father. Auckland Colvin died at Surbiton on March 24, 1908.
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