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{{About|the military officer|the educationalist|Cecil William Kaye}}
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|birth_date = {{Birth date|1868|5|27|df=yes}}
|death_date = {{Death date and age|1935|3|5|1868|5|27|df=yes}}
|birth_place = [[Madron]], [[Cornwall]], England
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|allegiance =United Kingdom
|branch = British Army<br/>British Indian Army
|serviceyears = 1889–1925
|rank = [[Lieutenant colonel (United Kingdom)|Lieutenant-Colonel]]
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|unit = [[Derbyshire Regiment]]<br/>[[Indian Staff Corps]]<br/>[[21st Punjabis]]<br/>[[20th Duke of Cambridge's Own Infantry (Brownlow's Punjabis)]]
|commands = [[Intelligence Bureau (India)|Department of Central Intelligence]]
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* North-West Frontier
* [[Boxer Rebellion]]
* [[World War I]]
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|spouse = Margaret Sarah (´Daisy´) Bryson
|relations = [[M. M. Kaye]] (daughter),
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Lieutenant-Colonel '''Sir Cecil Kaye''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CSI|CIE|CBE}} (27 May 1868 – 5 March 1935) was an officer in the [[British Indian Army]].

==Biography==
Kaye was born in [[Madron]], [[Cornwall]], the son of William Kaye, of the [[Bengal Civil Service]], and Jane Margaret (née Beckett). He came from a family with a strong tradition of seeking careers in the British civil or military service in India; he was a first cousin of the historian Sir [[John William Kaye]].<ref name="sun">M.M. Kaye, ''The sun in the morning'', p. 21. Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1992.</ref> In 1889, after attending [[Winchester College]], he was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the 2nd Battalion, [[Derbyshire Regiment]],<ref name="popplewell">Popplewell (2014)</ref> receiving promotion to lieutenant on 1 November 1890.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=26113 |date=9 December 1890 |page=6922 |nolink=yes }}</ref> On 26 June 1892 Kaye was seconded for service with the [[Indian Staff Corps]],<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=26323 |date=6 September 1892 |page=5095 |nolink=yes }}</ref><ref>{{London Gazette |issue=26506 |date=24 April 1894 |page=2321 |nolink=yes }}</ref> later seeing active service at the [[Military history of the North-West Frontier|North-West Frontier]] in 1897–1898, and being awarded the [[India Medal]].<ref name="popplewell"/> He was promoted to captain on 6 March 1900,<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=27193 |date=18 May 1900 |page=3150 |nolink=yes }}</ref> and served during the [[Boxer Rebellion]] in China in 1900–1901.<ref name="popplewell"/> While at [[Tientsin]] he met Margaret Sarah Bryson, whom he married in 1905, having a son and two daughters, including [[M. M. Kaye]].<ref name="popplewell"/> He was promoted to major in the [[21st Punjabis]] on 6 March 1907.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=28027 |date=4 June 1907 |page=3838 |nolink=yes }}</ref> In 1908 Kaye was appointed deputy adjutant to the Quartermaster-General in the Intelligence Branch of the General Staff at Indian Army Headquarters in [[Shimla|Simla]].<ref name="popplewell"/> He was made a [[Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire]] (CIE) on 1 January 1913.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=28677 |date=31 December 1912 |page=3 |supp=y |nolink=yes }}</ref>

In August 1914, he was appointed Deputy Chief Censor, working closely with the [[Department of Criminal Intelligence]], and gaining a reputation as a skilled [[cryptographer]].<ref name="popplewell"/> On 6 October 1914 he was promoted from major to temporary lieutenant-colonel in the [[20th Duke of Cambridge's Own Infantry (Brownlow's Punjabis)]],<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=28944 |date=16 October 1914 |page=8365 |supp=y |nolink=yes }}</ref> and this was confirmed on 6 March 1915.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=29149 |date=30 April 1915 |page=4175 |nolink=yes }}</ref> On 1 January 1917 he was appointed a [[Companion of the Order of the Star of India]] (CSI) in recognition of his "meritorious services ... in connection with the war",<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=29886 |date=29 December 1916 |page=3 |supp=y |nolink=yes }}</ref> and was made a [[Commander of the Order of the British Empire]] (CBE) in 1919.<ref name="popplewell"/>

On 29 September 1919 he was appointed temporary Director of the [[Intelligence Bureau (India)|Department of Central Intelligence]], and this was confirmed on 7 May 1920.<ref name="popplewell"/> He retired from that post in 1924.<ref name="popplewell"/> He was awarded a knighthood on 1 January 1925,<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=33007 |date=30 December 1924 |page=2 |supp=y |nolink=yes }}</ref> receiving his accolade from the King at [[Buckingham Palace]] on 12 February 1925.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=33020 |date=13 February 1925 |page=1070 |nolink=yes }}</ref> He retired from the Indian Army on 13 April 1925.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=33058 |date=19 June 1925 |page=4118 |nolink=yes }}</ref>

In 1925 he wrote ''Communism in India'', in which he described the operations of the DCI against the [[Bolsheviks]] during his time in office. Kaye then served as a minister in the Indian [[princely state]] of [[Tonk State|Tonk]] until 1930. After his retirement he lived in [[Srinagar]], and was a regular contributor to the journal ''Near East and India''. He died of a [[heart attack]] at [[New Delhi]] on 5 March 1935.<ref name="popplewell"/>

==References==
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==Bibliography==
* {{cite web |url= http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/53776 |title=Kaye, Sir Cecil |first=Richard |last=Popplewell |work=[[Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]] |date=May 2014 |accessdate=10 September 2022}}
* {{cite book |url= http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U212155 |chapter=Kaye, Lt-Col. Sir Cecil |title=Who Was Who |publisher=[[A & C Black]] |date=April 2014 |accessdate=10 September 2022}}

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