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Sir Harcourt (Spencer) Butler

First Governor of United Provinces
Tenure: 03-01-1921 to 21-12-1922

Birth 1st August, 1869
Marriage Married Florence in 1894
Education & Degrees Educated at Harrow and Balliol College, Oxford. Entered I.C.S. in 1890.
Titles: G.C.S.I., G.C.I.E., C.S.I., C.I.E., I.C.S., Hon. D.C.L. (Oxon), D.Litt., D.L., F.R.G.S., F.R.S.A., F.R.A.S., F.Z.S., Knight of Justice, St. John of Jerusalem.
Highlights of Career Served in India as Assistant Collector and Magistrate; Junior Secretary, Board of Revenue; Settlement Officer; Secretary to the Famine Commission; Finance Secretary and Judicial Secretary to the Government of U.P.; Deputy Commissioner, Lucknow; Foreign Secretary to the Government of India; Member of the Executive Council of the Governor-General; Lieutenant-Governor of Burma (1915–17); Lieutenant-Governor of U.P. of Agra and Oudh (1918); Governor of U.P. (1921–22); Governor of Burma (1923–27); Chairman, Indian States Committee (1928); Director, National Provincial Bank and P&O Company.
Publication India Insistent, 1931
Death 2nd March, 1938
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