Sir Robert Eyles Egerton (15 April 1827 – 30 September 1912) was a British administrator in the

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who served as a member of the

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and as

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of the

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Biography

He was born into the

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, the youngest son of William Egerton.Buckland, C. E.. Dictionary of Indian Biography. India, Indological Book House, 1971. He was educated at

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, and the

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. He began his career in India in 1849. During the Indian Mutiny of 1857 he served as Deputy Commissioner at Lahore. In 1869 he was appointed Commissioner of

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, and in 1871 was made Financial Commissioner of the Punjab. Between 1871 and 1874 he also served as a member of the Governor General's

. In 1879 he was appointed

of the

. Egerton retired from service at the end of his term in 1882. Lord Lytton described Egerton as an administrator with 'loyalty and good sense' and 'a tower of strength to the Administration'.

Personal life

On 18 April 1853 he married Mary Warren, with whom he had seven children.Burke, Bernard, and Burke, Ashworth Peter. A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Colonial Gentry .... United Kingdom, Harrison, 1891. His daughter, Frances Mary Egerton, married Sir William Mackworth Young.

References

* 1827 births 1912 deaths Indian Civil Service (British India) officers Robert Eyles British people in colonial India Knights Commander of the Order of the Star of India Companions of the Order of the Indian Empire Alumni of Exeter College, Oxford {{UK-gov-bio-stub