James Peile (administrator)

Sir James Braithwaite Peile (1833–1906) was a British administrator during the British Raj, who served as the acting Governor of Bombay in March 1885.[1]

Life

Peile was educated at Repton School and Oriel College, Oxford, and appointed to the Bombay civil service in 1855. He held a number of positions over the following thirty years, including municipal commissioner of Bombay, political agent in Kathiawar, and vice-chancellor of Bombay University. He was offered, but declined, the position of commissioner of Sind. After a career mostly spent in Bombay, he retired in 1887 and was appointed to the Council of India, a position he held for a further fifteen years.

Politically, he supported increased devolution of powers to the Indian provinces and a limited increase in Indian participation in the civil service.

His son, James Peile, became a clergyman, later Archdeacon of Warwick and Archdeacon of Worcester.

References

  1. ↑  Lee, Sidney, ed. (1912). "Peile, James Braithwaite". Dictionary of National Biography, 1912 supplement​. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
  • The India List and India Office List (1905), p. 585
  • Hardiman, David. "Peile, Sir James Braithwaite (1833–1906)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/35457. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)


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