Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Armine Brereton Dew, KCIE

Order of the Indian Empire

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, CSI (1867–1941) was a British Indian Army officer and administrator in British India; he served as the Chief Commissioner of Balochistan

Balochistan (Pakistan)

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 during colonial rule. Commissioned in 1886 in the 4th Battalion of the Shropshire Light Infantry, he was promoted to Lieutenant in 1891, Captain in 1899 and to Major in 1906. By 1911, he was Political Agent in Gilgit and in that year was appointed a CIE. He was promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel in 1914. He was Political Agent for the princely state of Kalat by 1915 and was appointed a CSI in that year. He was knighted with the KCIE in 1921.

Styles

• 1867-1886: Armine Brereton Dew
• 1886-1891: Second Lieutenant Armine Brereton Dew
• 1891-1899: Lieutenant Armine Brereton Dew
• 1899-1906: Captain Armine Brereton Dew
• 1906-1911: Major Armine Brereton Dew
• 1911-1914: Major Armine Brereton Dew, CIE
• 1914-1915: Lieutenant-Colonel Armine Brereton Dew, CIE
• 1915-1921: Lieutenant-Colonel Armine Brereton Dew, CSI, CIE
• 1921-1941: Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Armine Brereton Dew, KCIE, CSI