Sir John Hubback | |
Honorific-Suffix: | KCSI |
Order3: | 1st Governor of Odisha |
Term Start3: | 1 April 1936 |
Term End3: | 11 August 1938 |
Predecessor3: | Office Created |
Successor3: | George Townsend Boag |
Term Start4: | 8 December 1938 |
Term End4: | 31 March 1941 |
Predecessor4: | George Townsend Boag |
Successor4: | Sir Hawthorne Lewis |
Birth Date: | 1878 |
Death Date: | 1968 |
Nationality: | British |
Sir John Austen Hubback, KCSI (27 February 1878 – 8 May 1968) was a British administrator in India who was the first Governor of Odisha.[1] [2] [3] [4]
Educated at Winchester College and King's College, Cambridge, Hubback entered the Indian Civil Service in 1902. A member of the Executive Council, Bihar and Orissa, from 1935 to 1936, he was Governor of Orissa between 1936 and 1941, when he retired. He was adviser to Secretary of State for India between 1942 and 1947.