Francis Slacke, CSI

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 (6 June 1853 – 8 August 1940) was a senior officer in the Indian Civil Service and later became Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal.

Early life

Francis Alexander Slack (post Slacke) was born in the parish of Saint Saviour

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 in Jersey

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 and educated at Blundell's School

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 in Tiverton, University College, Oxford

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 and St John's College, Cambridge

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. On 19 November, 1879 Slacke married Caroline Elizabeth Cave, 2nd daughter of Thomas Cave

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, M.P.

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 and sister of Viscount Cave.

Career

Slacke entered the Indian Civil Service in 1874 and was admitted at the Inner Temple

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 on 27 May, 1875. His appointments included:

• Magistrate and Collector - 1892
• Secretary to the Board of Revenue
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   – 1896
• Secretary to the Government of Bengal (Revenue and General Department) – 1900
• Commissioner – 1903
• Major, Calcutta Light Horse (1905-8)
• Member of Board of Revenue – 1906
• Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal - 1906
• Vice-President of Bengal Legislative Council - 1910
• Vice-President of Bengal Executive Council - 1911

Slacke retired from the Indian Civil Service in 1912 and was subsequently appointed Fellow of Calcutta University (1907) and President of Fisheries Advisory Committee (1908).