Sir Lancelot Graham was an Indian civil servant during the British Raj. He served as the first Governor of Sind

Sindh

Sindh historically referred to as Ba'ab-ul-Islam , is one of the four provinces of Pakistan and historically is home to the Sindhi people. It is also locally known as the "Mehran". Though Muslims form the largest religious group in Sindh, a good number of Christians, Zoroastrians and Hindus can...

 from 1 April 1936 to 31 March 1941.

During his governorship, in order to encourage notables of the province, letters of appreciation were issued to various politicians and landlords of Sind for their public service to their territories and the country as a whole. One of his principal advisers was Sir Shah Nawaz Bhutto

Shah Nawaz Bhutto

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, father of the later prime minister of Pakistan Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

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. Khan Sahib Shahal Khan Khoso

Khan Sahib Shahal Khan Khoso

Khan Sahib Shahal Khan Khoso came from a family which had, since the many last centuries, been prominent among the landed aristocracy of the Sindh. He was a Member of the West Pakistan Legislative Assembly from 1953 to 1956, belonging to Khoso Baloch family of Thul district Jacobabad Sindh...

 also received letters of appreciation from Graham. Graham appointed Khan Bahadur Ghulam Nabi Kazi

Khan Bahadur Ghulam Nabi Kazi

Khan Bahadur Ghulam Nabi Kazi MBE was a veteran educationist of Sind and rose to the position of the first Director of Public Instruction Sindh after remaining Educational Inspector Sindh in the Bombay Presidency....

 MBE as his first Director of Public Instruction to head the Education Sector in Sindh. Upon Kazi's retirement in 1939, he appointed Dr Umar Bin Muhammad Daudpota

Umar Bin Muhammad Daudpota

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 to that position. While governor, he laid the foundation stone for the Sind Assembly building on March 11, 1940.

His son, David Maurice Graham, was a broadcaster with the BBC External Services, and his grandson, Christopher Graham

Christopher Graham

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, became the UK's Information Commissioner in 2009