Laithwaite, John Gilbert, Sir, 1894-1986, Knight, Indian administrator

1917–18 second lieutenant with the 10th Lancashire Fusiliers; 1924 India Office principal; 1932 secretary of the Indian franchise (Lothian) committee; 1935-1936 secretary of the Indian delimitation committee; 1935 CIE; 1936 -1943 principal private secretary to the second marquess of Linlithgow, viceroy of India; 1938 CSI; 1941 KCIE; 1943-1944 assistant under-secretary of state for India; 1944-1945 under-secretary (civil) of the war cabinet; 1945-1947 deputy under-secretary of state for Burma; 1947 deputy under-secretary of state for India; 1948-1949 deputy under-secretary for Commonwealth relations; 1948 KCMG; 1949 United Kingdom representative to the Republic of Ireland; 1950 United Kingdom ambassador to the Republic of Ireland; 1951-1954 high commissioner in Pakistan; 1953 GCMG; 1955-1959 permanent under-secretary of state for Commonwealth relations; 1955 honorary fellow of Trinity College, Oxford; 1956 KCB; 1959-1971 member of the Standing Commission on Museums and Galleries; 1960 freeman of the City of London; 1963-1966 vice-chairman of the Commonwealth Institute; 1964-1969 president of the Hakluyt Society; 1966-1969 president of the Royal Geographical Society; 1967 vice-president of the Royal Central Asian Society; 1972-1973 master of the Tallow Chandlers' Company

Epithet: Indian administrator

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