Dictionary of Indian Biography/Colvin, Sir Auckland

by Charles Edward Buckland

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COLVIN, SIR AUCKLAND (1838– )

I.C.S. : son of John Russell Colvin (q.v) : born 1838 : educated at Eton and Haileybury, 1855–7 : served, chiefly in the N.W.P., 1858–79 : officiating Secretary to N.W.P. Government, 1873, 1875 : Comptroller-General, Egypt, 1880–2 : K.C.M.G., 1881 : Financial Adviser to the Khedive, 1882–3 : Financial Member of the Supreme Council, 1883–7 : Lieutenant Governor of the N.W.P. and Oudh, 1887–92 : retired, 1892 : K.C.S.L, 1892 : C.I.E. : Chairman of the Burma Railways Co. : and of the Egyptian Delta Light Railways Co. : wrote John Russell Colvin, in the "Rulers of India" series, 1895.