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| birth_date = 1834
| birth_place = [[Macau]], China
| death_date = 18 August 1915
| death_place = [[Shanklin]], Isle of Wight
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| occupation = [[Indian Civil Service]]
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'''Cairnes Anthony Daniell''' (1834 - 18 August 1915) was a [[Indian Civil Service|British civil servant]] in [[British India|India]], where he held several administrative posts including [[district magistrate|joint magistrate and deputy collector]] at [[Dehra Dun]], judge at [[Gorakhpur]], agent governor-general at [[Benares State|Benares]], and senior member of the Board of Revenue, [[North-Western Provinces]] (NWP).

==Early life and education==
Cairnes Anthony Daniell was born in [[Macau]], China in 1834, to James Nugent Daniell, of the [[East India Company]].<ref>{{cite book |title=Census Returns of England and Wales, 1891; |date=1891 |publisher=The National Archives of the UK |location=Kew |page=108}}</ref><ref name=Obit1915>{{cite news |title=Death notice |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000290/19150820/094/0004 |access-date=13 January 2025 |work=Portsmouth Evening News |date=20 August 1915 |location=Hampshire |page=4|via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription}}</ref> He was educated at [[Harrow School]], leaving there in 1850.<ref name=Dauglish1911>{{cite book |last1=Dauglish |first1=Milverton Godfrey |last2=Stephenson |first2=Pleydell Keppel |title=The Harrow School register, 1800-1911. 1st ed., 1894, comp. and ed. by R. Courtenay Welch ... 2d ed., 1901 |date=1911 |publisher=London, Longmans, Green, and co. |page=191 |url=https://archive.org/details/harrowschoolregi00harruoft/page/190/mode/2up?q=daniell}}</ref> From 1851 to 1853 he attended [[East India College|Haileybury]], and arrived in [[British India|India]] the following year.<ref name=Danvers>{{Cite book |last1=Danvers |first1=Frederick Charles |url=https://archive.org/details/memorialsoldhai00collgoog/page/452/mode/2up?q=daniell |title=Memorials of Old Haileybury College |last2=Monier-Williams |first2=Sir Monier |last3=Bayley |first3=Sir Steuart Colvin |last4=Wigram |first4=Percy |last5=Sapte |first5=Brand |date=1894 |publisher=A. Constable |language=en|page=455}}</ref>

==Career==
Daniell joined the [[Indian Civil Service|Bengal Civil Service]] in March 1856, though immediately took leave due to sickness.<ref name=NWP1881>{{cite book |title=History of services of gazetted officers employed under the government of the N.W.P. and Oudh. Corrected up to 1st Jan., 1881|date=1881 |publisher=Allahabad North-Western Provinces and Oudh Govt. Press |location=Allahabad |page=16 |url=https://archive.org/details/historyofservice00alla/page/16/mode/2up?q=cairnes}}</ref> He returned to India in January 1859 to join the NWP, where he was appointed assistant under the Commissioner at [[Meerut]].<ref name=NWP1881/> In March of that year he was posted to Dehra Dun as assistant superintendent, and promoted to joint magistrate and deputy collector there in August 1861.<ref name=NWP1881/> In 1874 he became district and circuit judge at [[Gorakhpur]].<ref name=Dauglish1911/><ref name=NWP1881/>

From 17 October 1867 to 16 July 1869, Daniell held an administrative post at the [[Bulandshahr district|district of Bulandshahr]].<ref name=Singh1874>{{cite book |last1=Singh |first1=Kuar Lachman|title=Historical and Statistical Memoir of Zila Bulandshahar |date=1874 |publisher=North-Western Provinces Government Press|isbn=978-3-382-50031-3|location=Allahabad |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.11477/page/45/mode/2up?q=willock|language=en|chapter= 1.Historical and statistical memoir of Bulandshahr|pages=45–52}}</ref><ref name=Nevill1922>{{cite book |last=Nevill |first=H. R. |url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.1361/page/n21/mode/2up?q=daniell |title=Bulandshahr A Gazetteer Vol-v (1922) |date=1922 |publisher=Government Branch Press |volume=V |location=Lucknow |pages=30}}</ref><ref name=GNWP1875>{{cite book |title=Gazetteer of the North-Western Provinces, Bulandshahr District |date=1875 |publisher=Government Press|isbn=978-3-385-21579-5 |page=57 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PFveEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA57 |chapter=Bulandshahr District|language=en}}</ref> In 1885 he was appointed senior member of NWP's Board of Revenue.<ref name=Obit1915/> In 1880 he was appointed agent governor-general at [[Benares State|Benares]].<ref name=NWP1881/>

Daniell retired in 1889 and settled in [[Shanklin]], Isle of Wight, where he supported the Conservative Party.<ref name=Obit1915/><ref name=Dauglish1911/> From the formation of the local [[Primrose League]], he was its secretary and later its treasurer.<ref name=Obit1915/> He also served as Vicar's warden to [[Church of St Saviour-on-the-Cliff, Shanklin|St. Saviour's Church]].<ref name=Obit1915/>

==Personal and family==
He married Emma Catherine, daughter of Major Eckford.<ref name=Daniell1876>{{cite book |last1=Philip Daniell |first1=Mabilia Daniell |url=https://archive.org/details/biographicalhis00danigoog/page/n38/mode/2up?q=cairnes |title=Biographical history of the family of Daniell or De Anyers of Cheshire, 1066-1876, comprehending ... |date=1876 |pages=30 |language=English}}</ref> They had two sons and one daughter.<ref name=Obit1915/> As a result of an eye injury from a railway accident in India, Daniell later became totally blind.<ref name=Obit1915/>

==See also==
*[[8th Light Cavalry]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

==Further reading==
*{{cite book |last1=Williams |first1=G. R. C. |title=Historical And Statistical Memoir Of Dehra Doon |date=1874 |location=Roorkee |page=211 |url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.19839/page/n245/mode/2up?q=daniell}}

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[[Category:Indian Civil Service (British India) officers]]
[[Category:People educated at Harrow School]]
[[Category:1834 births]]
[[Category:1915 deaths]]
[[Category:Conservative Party (UK) people]]

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