Bayley, Steuart Colvin, Sir, 1836-1925, Knight, administrator in India

1856 Bengal Civil Service; 1862-1867 secretariat, the government of Bengal; 1865-1867 officiating chief secretary, the government of Bengal; 1871 commissioner of Chittagong; 1872-1874 commissioner of Patna; 1874 CSI; 1877 private secretary for famine affairs to the viceroy of India, Lord Lytton; 1878 KCSI; 1878 chief commissioner, Assam; 1881 CIE; 1881 resident, Hyderabad; 1882 home member of the executive council, Hyderabad; 1887-1890 lieutenant-governor of Bengal; 1890-1905 political secretary, the India Office; 1895-1905 member of the Council of India; 1900-1920 member of the Athenaeum committee; 1906-1908 chairman, the Royal Society of Arts; 1911 GCSI.

Epithet: administrator in India

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