Richard Morris Dane

Sir Richard Morris Dane (1854–1940) was a British administrator in India and China.[1]

Life

He was the son of Richard Martin Dane M.D. (1813–1901) and his wife Sophia Eliza Griffiths; Louis William Dane, Lieutenant-Governor of the Punjab, was his brother.[2] He was educated at Kingstown, Dublin, and entered the Indian Civil Service in 1872.[3]

Dane served as Inspector-General of Salt Revenue in India from 1907 to 1909. He was later posted to China, in the Sino-Foreign Salt Administration, with a corresponding role from 1913 to 1918.[1] Arriving there under the administration of Yuan Shikai, he set up a system on the Indian Civil Service model, recruiting district inspectors from many nationalities. It proved effective in gathering revenue.[4]

Awards and honours

Dane received the C.I.E. in 1896 and K.C.I.E in 1909, the Order of Chia-Ho in 1914 and the Order of Wen-Hu in 1918.[3][2]

Family

Dane married in 1880 Emily Leeds, daughter of Sir Edward Leeds, 3rd Baronet; Major Richard Dane of the Indian Army was their son.[2] They divorced in 1901.[5]

Notes

  1. 1 2 Morrison, George Ernest (1976). The Correspondence of G. E. Morrison 1912-1920. Cambridge University Press. pp. 84 note 1. ISBN 9780521215619. Retrieved 19 September 2017.
  2. 1 2 3 Fox-Davies, Arthur Charles (1929–30). Armorial Families. 2 (7th ed.). London: Hurst & Blackett. pp. 492–3.
  3. 1 2 s:The Indian Biographical Dictionary (1915)/Dane, Sir Richard Morris
  4. ↑ Teichman, Eric (2016-04-06). Affairs of China: A Survey of the Recent History and Present Circumstances of the Republic of China. Routledge. p. 132. ISBN 9781317217060. Retrieved 19 September 2017.
  5. ↑ "The County Families of the United Kingdom; or, Royal manual of the titled and untitled aristocracy of England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland ." Internet Archive. London: Spottiswoode, Ballantyne & Co. 1919. p. 345. Retrieved 19 September 2017.
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