Chief Commissioners of Baluchistan

• 1877-1887: Sir Oliver Beauchamp Coventry St John
  Oliver St John (civil servant)
  Sir Oliver Beauchamp Coventry St. John, KCSI was an administrator in British India. He served as the Chief Commissioner of Balochistan for ten years....
  
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• 1887-1889: Sir Robert Groves Sandeman
  Robert Groves Sandeman
  Sir Robert Groves Sandeman, KCSI , Colonial British Indian officer and administrator, was the son of General Robert Turnbull Sandeman, and was born on the 25th of February 1835. He was educated at Perth and University of St Andrews, and joined the 33rd Bengal Infantry in 1856...
  
  
• 1889: Sir Harry North Dalrymple Prendergast
  Harry Prendergast
  General Sir Harry North Dalrymple Prendergast VC GCB was a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces....
  
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• 1889-1891: Sir Robert Groves Sandeman
  Robert Groves Sandeman
  Sir Robert Groves Sandeman, KCSI , Colonial British Indian officer and administrator, was the son of General Robert Turnbull Sandeman, and was born on the 25th of February 1835. He was educated at Perth and University of St Andrews, and joined the 33rd Bengal Infantry in 1856...
  
  
• 1891: Sir Hugh Shakespear Barnes
  Hugh Shakespear Barnes
  Sir Hugh Shakespear Barnes KCSI KCVO was an administrator in British India. He served as Chief Commissioner of Baluchistan several times during the 19th Century....
  
  
• 1891: Sir Oliver Beauchamp Coventry St John
  Oliver St John (civil servant)
  Sir Oliver Beauchamp Coventry St. John, KCSI was an administrator in British India. He served as the Chief Commissioner of Balochistan for ten years....
  
  
• 1891: Sir Hugh Shakespear Barnes
  Hugh Shakespear Barnes
  Sir Hugh Shakespear Barnes KCSI KCVO was an administrator in British India. He served as Chief Commissioner of Baluchistan several times during the 19th Century....
  
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• 1891: John Biddulph
  John Biddulph (civil servant)
  John Biddulph was an administrator in British India. He served as the acting Chief Commissioner of Baluchistan during the 19th Century.John Biddulph was an administrator in British India. He served as the acting Chief Commissioner of Baluchistan during the 19th Century.John Biddulph was an...
  
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• 1891-1892: Sir Robert Groves Sandeman
  Robert Groves Sandeman
  Sir Robert Groves Sandeman, KCSI , Colonial British Indian officer and administrator, was the son of General Robert Turnbull Sandeman, and was born on the 25th of February 1835. He was educated at Perth and University of St Andrews, and joined the 33rd Bengal Infantry in 1856...
  
  
• 1892: Sir Hugh Shakespear Barnes
  Hugh Shakespear Barnes
  Sir Hugh Shakespear Barnes KCSI KCVO was an administrator in British India. He served as Chief Commissioner of Baluchistan several times during the 19th Century....
  
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• 1892-1896: Sir James Browne
  James Browne (civil servant)
  Sir James Browne was an administrator in British India. He served as the acting Chief Commissioner of Baluchistan during the 19th Century.Browne was born in Scotland. He had served as quartermaster general in India in 1889....
  
  
• 1896: James Adair Crawford
  James Adair Crawford
  James Adair Crawford was a civil servant of the British Empire, in 1893 he served as the Chief political resident of the Persian Gulf...
  
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• 1896-1899: Sir Hugh Shakespear Barnes
  Hugh Shakespear Barnes
  Sir Hugh Shakespear Barnes KCSI KCVO was an administrator in British India. He served as Chief Commissioner of Baluchistan several times during the 19th Century....
  
  
• 1899: Henry Wylie
  Henry Wylie
  Henry Wylie was an administrator in British India, he served as the acting Chief Commissioner of Balochistan in 1899. He served as British Resident at Nepal, 1891–1900.-External links:...
  
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• 1899-1900: Sir Hugh Shakespear Barnes
  Hugh Shakespear Barnes
  Sir Hugh Shakespear Barnes KCSI KCVO was an administrator in British India. He served as Chief Commissioner of Baluchistan several times during the 19th Century....
  
  
• 1900-1904: Charles Edward Yate
• 1904-1905: John Ramsay
  John Ramsay (commissioner)
  John Ramsay was an administrator in British India, he served as the Chief Commissioner of Balochistan five times.-References:...
  
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• 1905-1907: Alexander Lauzun Pendock Tucker
  Alexander Tucker (commissioner)
  Alexander Lauzun Pendock Tucker, CIE was an administrator in British India. He served as the Chief Commissioner of Balochistan. He was appointed a CIE in 1901....
  
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• 1907-1909: Sir Arthur Henry McMahon
  Henry McMahon (diplomat)
  Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Arthur Henry McMahon, GCMG, GCVO, KCIE, CSI was a British diplomat and Indian Army officer who served as the High Commissioner in Egypt from 1915 to 1917. He was also an administrator in British India, and served twice as Chief Commissioner of Balochistan...
  
  
• 1909: Charles Archer
  Charles Archer
  Charles Archer was an administrator in British India, he served as the Chief Commissioner of Baluchistan province four times. He collaborated with his brother William in translating three of Ibsen's plays: Rosmersholm, Lady Inger of Oestraat, and Peer Gynt.-External links:...
  
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• 1909-1911: Sir Arthur Henry McMahon
  Henry McMahon (diplomat)
  Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Arthur Henry McMahon, GCMG, GCVO, KCIE, CSI was a British diplomat and Indian Army officer who served as the High Commissioner in Egypt from 1915 to 1917. He was also an administrator in British India, and served twice as Chief Commissioner of Balochistan...
  
  
• 1911-1912: John Ramsay
  John Ramsay (commissioner)
  John Ramsay was an administrator in British India, he served as the Chief Commissioner of Balochistan five times.-References:...
  
  
• 1912: Charles Archer
  Charles Archer
  Charles Archer was an administrator in British India, he served as the Chief Commissioner of Baluchistan province four times. He collaborated with his brother William in translating three of Ibsen's plays: Rosmersholm, Lady Inger of Oestraat, and Peer Gynt.-External links:...
  
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• 1912-1914: John Ramsay
  John Ramsay (commissioner)
  John Ramsay was an administrator in British India, he served as the Chief Commissioner of Balochistan five times.-References:...
  
  
• 1914: Charles Archer
  Charles Archer
  Charles Archer was an administrator in British India, he served as the Chief Commissioner of Baluchistan province four times. He collaborated with his brother William in translating three of Ibsen's plays: Rosmersholm, Lady Inger of Oestraat, and Peer Gynt.-External links:...
  
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• 1914-1915: John Ramsay
  John Ramsay (commissioner)
  John Ramsay was an administrator in British India, he served as the Chief Commissioner of Balochistan five times.-References:...
  
  
• 1915: Charles Archer
  Charles Archer
  Charles Archer was an administrator in British India, he served as the Chief Commissioner of Baluchistan province four times. He collaborated with his brother William in translating three of Ibsen's plays: Rosmersholm, Lady Inger of Oestraat, and Peer Gynt.-External links:...
  
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• 1915-1917: John Ramsay
  John Ramsay (commissioner)
  John Ramsay was an administrator in British India, he served as the Chief Commissioner of Balochistan five times.-References:...
  
  
• 1917-1919: Henry Robert Conway Dobbs
  Henry Dobbs
  Sir Henry Robert Conway Dobbs, GBE, KCSI, KCMG, KCIE was an administrator in British India, he served as the Chief Commissioner of Balochistan. He later served as High Commissioner to the Kingdom of Iraq from 1923 to 1929, the longest time this position was held by anyone during the course of the...
  
  
• 1919-1922: Armine Brereton Dew
  Armine Dew
  Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Armine Brereton Dew, KCIE, CSI was a British Indian Army officer and administrator in British India; he served as the Chief Commissioner of Balochistan during colonial rule. Commissioned in 1886 in the 4th Battalion of the Shropshire Light Infantry, he was promoted to...
  
  
• 1922-1923: Henry Beauchamp St John
  Henry Beauchamp St John
  Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Henry Beauchamp St. John, KCIE, CBE, . Born 26 August 1874 son of Colonel Sir Oliver B.C. St.John KCSI, RE. Beauchamp St.John was a British Indian Army officer, originally commissioned in 1893 into the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, and transferred to the Indian Staff...
  
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• 1923-1926: Frederick William Johnston
  Frederick William Johnston
  Frederick William Johnston was an administrator in British India, he served as the Chief Commissioner of Balochistan in the 1920s during colonial rule, as well as the Chief Political Resident of the Persian Gulf.-References:...
  
  
• 1926-1927: Edmond Henry Salt James
  Edmond James
  Edmond Henry Salt James was an administrator in British India, he twice served as the Chief Commissioner of Balochistan in the 1920s during colonial rule.-References:...
  
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• 1927-1929: Henry Beauchamp St John
  Henry Beauchamp St John
  Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Henry Beauchamp St. John, KCIE, CBE, . Born 26 August 1874 son of Colonel Sir Oliver B.C. St.John KCSI, RE. Beauchamp St.John was a British Indian Army officer, originally commissioned in 1893 into the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, and transferred to the Indian Staff...
  
  
• 1929: Edmond Henry Salt James
  Edmond James
  Edmond Henry Salt James was an administrator in British India, he twice served as the Chief Commissioner of Balochistan in the 1920s during colonial rule.-References:...
  
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• 1929-1931: Charles Edward Bruce
  Charles Edward Bruce
  Charles Edward Bruce was an administrator in British India, he served as the Chief Commissioner of Baluchistan in the 1920s during colonial rule.-References:...
  
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• 1931-1932: Alexander Norman Ley Cater
  Alexander Cater
  Sir Alexander Norman Ley Cater KCIE was an administrator in British India. He joined the ICS in 1904 and served in the First World War, during which he rose to the rank of Captain. He later became a Lieutenant in the Hyderabad Rifles. In 1921, he received the Order of the White Elephant, 3rd Class...
  
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• 1932: John Aloysius Brett
  John Aloysius Brett
  John Aloysius Brett was an administrator in British India. He served as Chief Commissioner of Baluchistan during the 1930s.-References:...
  
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• 1932-1936: Alexander Norman Ley Cater
  Alexander Cater
  Sir Alexander Norman Ley Cater KCIE was an administrator in British India. He joined the ICS in 1904 and served in the First World War, during which he rose to the rank of Captain. He later became a Lieutenant in the Hyderabad Rifles. In 1921, he received the Order of the White Elephant, 3rd Class...
  
  
• 1936: Ronald Evelyn Leslie Wingate (acting)
• 1936-1937: Arthur Edward Broadbent Parsons
  Arthur Parsons
  Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Arthur Edward Broadbent Parsons, KCIE, CBE, DSO was a British Indian Army officer and administrator in British India. He was commissioned into the Oxfordshire Volunteer Light Infantry as an acting Second Lieutenant in 1904, and was given a full second lieutenancy in 1906. He...
  
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• 1937: Ronald Evelyn Leslie Wingate (acting)
• 1937-1938: Olaf Kirkpatrick Caroe
  Olaf Caroe
  Sir Olaf Kirkpatrick Kruuse Caroe KCSI KCIE was an administrator in British India. He later became a writer on the Middle East and Asia.-Life:...
  
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• 1938-1939: Arthur Edward Broadbent Parsons
  Arthur Parsons
  Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Arthur Edward Broadbent Parsons, KCIE, CBE, DSO was a British Indian Army officer and administrator in British India. He was commissioned into the Oxfordshire Volunteer Light Infantry as an acting Second Lieutenant in 1904, and was given a full second lieutenancy in 1906. He...
  
  
• 1939-1943: Sir Herbert Aubrey Francis Metcalfe
  Herbert Metcalfe
  Sir Herbert Aubrey Francis Metcalfe, KCIE, CSI, MVO was an administrator in British India. He was commissioned into the Royal Munster Fusiliers in 1903 and joined the ICS in 1908. In 1917, he was commissioned a Temporary Lieutenant in the 5th Punjab Light Horse of the British Indian Army...
  
  
• 1943-1946: William Rupert Hay
  William Rupert Hay
  Sir William Rupert Hay, KCIE, CSI was a British Indian Army officer and administrator in British India. He served as Chief Commissioner of Balochistan during the colonial era. He was commissioned in 1915 and promoted to Lieutenant in 1918. He was a Major by 1933 and in that year was appointed a...
  
  
• 1946: Henry Mortimer Poulton
  Henry Mortimer Poulton
  Henry Mortimer Poulton was an administrator in British India. He was one of the last Chief Commissioners of Balochistan during the colonial era.-References:...
  
  
• 1946-1947: Sir Geoffrey Prior
  Geoffrey Prior
  Sir Charles Geoffrey Prior KCIE was an administrator in British India. He was one of the last Chief Commissioners of Balochistan during the colonial era. He was appointed a CIE in 1936 and was knighted with the KCIE in 1943.-References:...