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| name = Sir Harold Stevens<br />
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| honorific_suffix = [[Order of the Indian Empire|KCIE]], [[Order of the Star of India|CSI]], [[Military Cross|MC]]<br />
| birth_date = {{birth date|1892|11|29|df=y}}<br />
| birth_place = [[Bareilly]], [[North-Western Provinces]], [[British Raj]]<br />(now Uttar Pradesh, India)<br />
| death_date = {{death date and age|1969|07|23|1892|11|29|df=y}}<br />
| death_place = [[Bexhill-on-Sea]], [[Sussex]], [[England]], [[United Kingdom]]<br />
| office = [[Chief Secretary (India)|Chief Secretary of the Government of Bengal]]<br />
| term_start1 = October 1944<br />
| term_end1 = 15 August 1947<br />
| governor = [[Frederick Burrows]]<br />
| predecessor = <br />
| successor = ''Post abolished''<br />
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|serviceyears= 1909–1919<br />
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|battles=[[First World War]]<br />
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'''Sir Harold Samuel Eaton Stevens''' [[Order of the Indian Empire|KCIE]], [[Order of the Star of India|CSI]], [[Military Cross|MC]] (29 November 1892 – 23 July 1969) was an [[Indian Civil Service]] officer and the last British [[Chief secretary (India)|Chief Secretary]] of the [[Bengal Presidency]].<ref name="daily_star">{{cite news |last=Khan |first=Waqar A. |date=13 June 2014 |title=Sir Harold Stevens ICS of Bengal |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/sir-harold-stevens-ics-of-bengal-28095 |work=The Daily Star |location= |access-date=3 January 2022}}</ref><br />
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==Career==<br />
Educated at [[George Heriot's School]] and the [[University of Edinburgh]], Stevens joined the Indian Civil Service in 1920, rising to become Chief Secretary of Bengal in October 1944.<ref name="India_Burma_Office">{{cite book |date=1947 |title=The India List and Burma Office List 1947 |location=London |publisher=[[HM Stationery Office]] |page=348 |url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.211481/page/n351/mode/2up}}</ref> He was knighted as a Knight Commander of the [[Order of the Indian Empire]] (KCIE) in the [[1947 Birthday Honours]] list.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=37977 |supp=y|page=2576|date=6 June 1947}}</ref><br />
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[[Category:1892 births]]<br />
[[Category:1969 deaths]]<br />
[[Category:Indian civil servants]]<br />
[[Category:Indian Civil Service (British India) officers]]<br />
[[Category:Knights Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire]]<br />
[[Category:Companions of the Order of the Star of India]]<br />
[[Category:Recipients of the Military Cross]]<br />
[[Category:Royal Scots officers]]<br />
[[Category:British Army personnel of World War I]]<br />
[[Category:Alumni of the University of Edinburgh]]<br />
[[Category:Knights of the Legion of Honour]]<br />
[[Category:Civil servants from British India]]<br />
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