Pearce, Charles Frederick Byrde, Sir, 1892-1964, Knight, administrator in India

1921-1947 Indian Civil Service, Burma; 1931 deputy commissioner; 1934 finance secretary; 1936 member of the application committee on the Indo-Burma debt; 1939 secretary to the governor of Burma; 1941 commissioner; 1941 CBE; 1942-1943 administrator, refugee areas, north Assam; 1943 major-general; 1943-1945 chief civil affairs officer, Burma; 1945 director, frontier areas, Burma; 1946 counsellor to the governor; 1947 auditor-general, Burma; 1948 knighthood; 1949-1952 chief secretary, Eritrea.

Epithet: administrator in India

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