Herbert Mills Birdwood
Herbert Birdwood | |
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British India | |
| Died | 21 February 1907 (aged 69) |
| Burial place | Twickenham Cemetery |
| Education | Mount Radford School |
| Alma mater | Peterhouse, Cambridge |
| Occupation | British colonial governor |
Herbert Mills Birdwood
Early life
Birdwood was born on 29 May 1837 in
Career
Birdwood was eighteenth in the Indian civil service examination in 1858 to enter the Haileybury, the training college for the Indian Civil Service. He completed his MA in 1861, LLM in 1878, LLD in 1889. He reached Bombay on 26 January 1859 and served in the Bombay Presidency as assistant collector. In 1863 he was under-secretary to the Bombay legislative council and in 1866 he went as a political assistant at Kathawar. He was appointed judge at Ratnagiri in 1871 and then moved to Thana and Surat. He established a reputation of independence by questioning the government and the legality of its revenue surveys. In 1881 he became Judicial Commissioner and Judge of the Sadar Court in Sind. He was an acting Judge of the Bombay High Court, in 1885 he was granted a permanent position which he held until being appointed Judicial Member of the Bombay Government in 1892. During his Sind tenure, he also worked on improvements to the Karachi public gardens and helped establish a zoo there.[4]
He served from 1885 to 1892 in Bombay as judge and from 1892 to 1897 as judicial and political member of the Bombay council. During this period he also immersed himself in educational and scientific pursuits. Birdwood became a vice-chancellor of the
Birdwood worked with Justice Wood Renton and E. G. Phillimore to revise of Burge's Commentaries on Colonial and Foreign Laws (1907).[4]
Personal life
Birdwood married Edith Marion Sidonie Impey, the daughter of Sergeant-Major Elijah George Halhed Impey, on 29 January 1861. They had six children, including
He died at his home Dalkeith House, Twickenham, from pneumonia on 21 February 1907 and is buried at Twickenham cemetery.[4]
References
- ^ Lawson, William John; Sladen, Douglas Brooke Wheelton; Oakes, Charles Henry; Addison, Henry Robert (1849). Who's who : an annual biographical dictionary, with which is incorporated "Men and women of the time". London : Black. p. 158 – via Internet Archive.
- ^ "Birdwood, Herbert, Mills (BRDT854HM)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ "University intelligence". The Times. No. 36600. London. 31 October 1901. p. 10.
- ^ a b c d e f Brown, Frank Herbert (1912). "Birdwood, Herbert Mills". Dictionary of National Biography. pp. 164–165.
- ^ Birdwood, H.M. (1886). "A catalogue of the flora of Matheran". Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. 1: 203–214.
Bibliography
- Great Britain. India Office (1819). The India List and India Office List. Harrison. Retrieved 9 November 2015.
- "Herbert Mills Birdwood" at The Peerage
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