Robert Henry Davies

Sir Robert Henry Davies KCSI CIE (1824 – 23 August 1902), also known as Sir Henry Davies, was a British colonial official who served as Lieutenant Governor of the Punjab.

Davies was the son of a Welsh physician, Sir David Davies, who was a physician to King William IV.[1] He was educated at Charterhouse School and the East India Company College ("Haileybury"). He became a writer (clerk) in the Bengal civil service in 1844 and was an official under the East India Company and the British Raj for the rest of his career. He was Chief Commissioner of Oudh 1868–71 (having acted in the post 1865–66) and Lieutenant Governor of the Punjab 1871–77.[2][3] Later he was a member of the Council of India, based in London, 1885–95.[4]

Davies died at Chobham and is buried in the churchyard of St Mary and St Botolph, Thorney, Cambridgeshire.[1][5]

References

  1. 1 2 "The contribution of Welshmen to the administration of India". Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion – via Welsh Journals Online.
  2. ↑ Imperial Gazetteer2 of India. 20. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1908. p. 331 – via Digital South Asia Library.
  3. ↑ Douie, Sir James McCrone (1916). The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province and Kashmir. Cambridge University Press. p. 192.
  4. ↑ DAVIES, Sir Robert Henry, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2016 (online edition, Oxford University Press, 2014)
  5. ↑ Sir Robert Henry Davies at Find a Grave


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