Sir Egbert Laurie Lucas Hammond, KCSI,

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(12 January 1873 – 28 January 1939) was a British colonial administrator in India. A leading expert in Indian electoral reform, he was

Governor of Assam This is a list of governors of Assam, and other offices of similar scope, from the start of British occupation of the area in 1824 during the First Anglo-Burmese War. The governor of Assam is the nominal head of the Indian state of Assam. The ...

from 1927 to 1932. The son of the Rev. Joseph Hammond, Canon of Truro Cathedral, Laurie Hammond was educated at Newton Abbot College, South Devon and

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. He passed into the

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by examination in 1895 and went out to Bengal the following year. He was a member of the

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Hammond, Laurie 1873 births 1939 deaths Governors of Assam Indian Civil Service (British India) officers Knights Commander of the Order of the Star of India Commanders of the Order of the British Empire Alumni of Keble College, Oxford British people in colonial India