Sir Selwyn Howe Fremantle (11 August 1869 – 16 March 1942) was a British administrator in

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. Fremantle was the son of Admiral Sir Edmund Fremantle, fourth son of

Thomas Fremantle, 1st Baron Cottesloe Thomas Francis Fremantle, 1st Baron Cottesloe, 2nd Baron Fremantle, (11 March 1798 – 3 December 1890), known as Sir Thomas Fremantle, Bt, between 1821 and 1874, was a British Tory politician. Early life Cottesloe was the eldest son of Ad ...

. He was educated at

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and

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, and joined the

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in 1890. He became settlement officer at Rai Bareli in 1895 and a

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and collector in 1903. He was appointed Registrar of Co-operative Societies in the United Provinces in 1907, Collector and Magistrate of

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in 1913, Commissioner of

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in 1918, Controller of Passages of the United Provinces in 1919, and Commissioner of

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in 1919. In 1920 he was appointed a member of the Council of the Lieutenant-Governor of the United Provinces and in 1921 he became a member of the Provincial Board of Revenue. He retired in 1925. He was appointed

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(CIE) in 1915 and

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(CSI) in the 1920 New Year Honours, and was

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in the

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. He died in hospital in

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, of injuries sustained in a road accident on 13 March 1942 when his car overturned.

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'', 17 March 1942 {{DEFAULTSORT:Fremantle, Selwyn 1869 births 1942 deaths People educated at Eton College Alumni of Magdalen College, Oxford Indian Civil Service (British India) officers Knights Bachelor Companions of the Order of the Indian Empire Companions of the Order of the Star of India People educated at Summer Fields School Road incident deaths in England British people in colonial India