Claude Hill Explained

Sir Claude Hill
Honorific-Suffix:KCSI CIE
Order:15th
Office:Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man
Term Start:1925
Term End:1932
Predecessor:William Fry
Successor:Sir Montagu Butler
Birth Date:1866
Birth Place:Cottingham, East Riding of Yorkshire[1]
Death Date:1934
Birthname:Claude Hamilton Archer Hill
Nationality:British
Spouse:Frances May West
Children:One son and two daughters
Alma Mater:Emmanuel College, Cambridge

Sir Claude Hamilton Archer Hill (1866  - 1934) was Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man.

Career

Educated at St Mark's School in Windsor and Emmanuel College, Cambridge,[2] Hill joined the Indian Civil Service in 1887.[3] After a posting as Under Secretary to the Government of India (Home Department) from 1895, he was appointed successively First Assistant Resident at Hyderabad in 1897, Private Secretary to the Governor of Bombay in 1900 and then Deputy Secretary to the Government of India (Foreign Department) in 1903.[3] His later appointments included political secretary to the Governor of Bombay in 1906, then Resident at Mewar and after that, Agent to the Governor at Kathiawar.[3] Later he became a member of the Executive Council of Bombay and subsequently, Finance Member of the Viceroy's Executive Council and Head of the Central Transport and Food Board of India.[3] He retired in 1921.[3]

In retirement he became Director-General of the League of Red Cross Societies and then Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man.[4]

Family

In 1892 he married Frances May West; they had a son and two daughters.[3]

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Notes and References

  1. http://www.tim.ukpub.net/pl_tree/ps51/ps51_027.html Birth Records
  2. https://books.google.com/books?id=b2NPAAAAMAAJ&dq=Sir+Claude+Hamilton+Archer+Hill&pg=PA520 The India List 1905
  3. http://www.isle-of-man.com/manxnotebook/exans/prt_1927.htm His Excellency the Lieutenant Governor
  4. http://www.worldstatesmen.org/Isle_of_Man.htm World Statesmen