Clark, G. D. (George Daniel), 1848-1933

1871-1880 teacher at the Royal Indian Engineering College; 1880-1882 served in Bermuda and Gibraltar; 1883-1885 adviser to the inspector-general of fortifications at the War Office; 1885-1892 secretary of the interdepartmental colonial defence committee; 1887 major; 1888-1890 secretary to the Hartington commission on army and navy administration; 1892-1894 served in Malta; 1893 knighthood; 1894-?1900 superintendent of the royal carriage department at Woolwich; 1901-1903 governor of Victoria; 1903 Esher committee on War Office reconstitution; 1904-1907 secretary of the committee of imperial defence; 1907-1913 governor of the Bombay presidency; 1913 baronet; 1913-1916 headed royal commission on venereal disease; 1915-1916 chair of the Central Appeal Tribunal; 1917 founded the Indo-British Association; 1915-1921 head of the British Empire League; 1917-1920 head of the British Science Guild

Epithet: military and colonial administrator

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