James Houssemayne Du Boulay
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Sir James Houssemayne Du Boulay (born Hampshire 15 April 1868 - Died - 26 November 1943) KCIE (Knight Commander Indian Empire) (1911); CSI He was the son of James Thomas Houssemayne Du Boulay and Alice Mead Du Boulay (née Cornish).
Du Boulay was educated at Winchester College and Balliol College Oxford. On 31 st July 1901 he married Freda Elais Butts Howell (1874 - 1957) Lady in Waiting Queen Mary (1911 Delhi Dhurba India). They had four children.
After University Du Boulay was selected for the Indian Civil Service. Thereafter his positions include:
- Bombay Presidency;
- Lt -Col Indian Defence Force.
- Private Secretary to Governor of Bombay - Lord Nortcote.
- Private Secretary to Governor of Bombay - Lord Lamington.
- Secretary to the Government of Bombay Political Department;
- Private secretary to Viceroy of India - Lord Hardinge of Penshurst.
- Secretary to Government of India Home Department.
- Temporary member of Governor General's Executive Council.
- Member of Indian Jails Committee.
Du Boulay retired in 1922.
[edit] References
- Burkes Peerage LTD Burkes Landed Gentry 18th Ed Vol 1-3.
- Lord Hardinge of Penshurst, My Indian Years 1910 - 1916
- National Archives of his papers
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