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Sir John Lewis Jenkins (22 July, 1857 - 13 January, 1912) was a British administrator in the
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Biography

He was born the son of James Jenkins of
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, and educated at
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. Jenkins joined the Imperial Civil Service in 1879. He served as Commissioner of Land Revenue and Reporter General of External Commerce in
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and later Commissioner of Commerce in Bombay between 1903 and 1906. He served as a Member of the Council of the Governor of Bombay between 1909–10 and held the office of Member of the Council of the Governor-General of India between 1910 and 1912. In 1911 he read the All-India address of welcome to
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at the
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. That same year he was made a
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. He died suddenly in 1912 at the age of 54 following brain trouble.


Personal life

He married Florence Mildred Trevor (1870-1956), daughter of Sir Arthur Trevor, on 18 November 1890 in Karāchi,
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. Their children were Arthur Lewis Jenkins (1892–1917), Elinor May Jenkins (1893–1920), Sir
Evan Meredith Jenkins Sir Evan Meredith Jenkins (2 February 1896 – 19 November 1985) was a British colonial administrator and the last governor of the Punjab Province (British India), Punjab Province of British India. Life He was a son of John Lewis Jenkins, Si ...
(1896–1985), Joyce Angharad Jenkins (1897–1983), David Llewelyn Jenkins (1899–1969), John Vaughan Jenkins (1903–1936), Sir Owain Trevor Jenkins (1907–1996).


References

1857 births 1912 deaths British civil servants in British India Knights Commander of the Order of the Star of India Indian Civil Service (British India) officers Alumni of Wadham College, Oxford {{UK-gov-bio-stub