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

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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

Title: Knight

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creatorOf WRENCH PAPERS. Vol. V (ff. 144). The first letter is addressed to Wrench's mother, Charlotte. Others relate to Wrench's duties as American relations officer to the Government of India, 1942-1944; 1913-1944.includes:f. 1 Very Reverend Lionel George Br..., 1913-1944 British Library
creatorOf WRENCH PAPERS. Vol. VII (ff. 134). 1949, n.d.includes:ff. 1-109 passim Sir Ralph Norman Angell Lane, alias 'Norman Angell'; author and journalist: Letters to Sir Evelyn Wrench from Sir Ralph Norman Angell Lane: 1949, n.d.: Partly signed. ff. 2, 57, ..., 1949 British Library
creatorOf Papers of Sir John Gilbert Laithwaite, British Civil Servant 1919-59, Private Secretary to the Viceroy 1936-43, 1916-1974 British Library
referencedIn Papers of Sir Findlater Stewart, India Office official, 1903-1960 British Library
referencedIn Papers of Sir Reginald Dorman-Smith, Governor of Burma 1941-46, 1941-1946 British Library
referencedIn Papers of W G Archer, Indian Civil Service, Bihar 1931-47, and of his wife Mildred Archer, experts on Indian poetry and art, 1929-1986 British Library
referencedIn Papers of 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow as Viceroy of India 1936-43, 1936-1943 British Library
referencedIn Papers of Sir Frank Herbert Brown (1868 -1959), journalist, assistant editor of the Bombay Gazette, editor of the Indian Daily Telegraph, London Correspondent of the Times of India, and member of the editorial staff of The Times 1929-54, 1929-1946 British Library
referencedIn Paper of Maj-Gen Sir Hubert Rance, chiefly as Governor of Burma 1946-48, 1946-1972 British Library
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Persian Gulf, Asia
Bombay, India
Purnea, Bihar
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India, Asia
Madras, India
Ghana, Africa
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Kunming, Burma
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Death 1986

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