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<p>Alter: url. URLs might have been internationalized/anonymized. | You can <a href="https://en.bharatpedia.org/wiki/BP:UCB" class="extiw" title="wp:UCB">use this bot</a> yourself. <a href="https://en.bharatpedia.org/wiki/BP:DBUG" class="extiw" title="wp:DBUG">Report bugs here</a>. | Suggested by AManWithNoPlan | <a href="/wiki/Category:Pages_using_cite_ODNB_with_id_parameter" title="Category:Pages using cite ODNB with id parameter">Category:Pages using cite ODNB with id parameter</a> | via #UCB_Category 41/7673</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2018}}<br /> {{Use British English|date=October 2018}} <br /> &#039;&#039;&#039;Sir James Braithwaite Peile&#039;&#039;&#039; (27 April 1833 – 25 April 1906) was a British administrator during the [[British Raj]], who served as the acting [[Governor of Bombay]] in March 1885.&lt;ref&gt;{{cite DNB12|wstitle=Peile, James Braithwaite}}&lt;/ref&gt;&lt;ref&gt;{{cite book |last1=Buckland |first1=Charles Edward |title=Dictionary of Indian Biography |date=1906 |publisher=S. Sonnenschein |page=332 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wvMRAAAAYAAJ&amp;q=James+Braithwaite+Peile&amp;pg=PA332 |access-date=3 February 2021 |language=en}}&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> ==Life==<br /> Born in Liverpool, Peile was educated at [[Repton School]], where his father, Thomas Braithwaite Peile, was headmaster,&lt;ref name=&quot;dnb&quot;&gt;&#039;&#039;Dictionary of National Biography&#039;&#039;, 1912 supplement, vol. 3, ed. Sidney Lee, p. 95&lt;/ref&gt; and then went up to [[Oriel College, Oxford]]. He was 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.<br /> <br /> Politically, he supported increased devolution of powers to the Indian provinces and a limited increase in [[Indianisation (British India)|Indian participation in the civil service]].<br /> <br /> His son, [[James Peile]], became a clergyman, later [[Archdeacon of Warwick]] and [[Archdeacon of Worcester]]. His first cousin was the philologist [[John Peile]].&lt;ref name=&quot;dnb&quot;/&gt;<br /> <br /> ==References==<br /> {{reflist}}<br /> *[https://books.google.com/books?id=3VQTAAAAYAAJ &#039;&#039;The India List and India Office List&#039;&#039; (1905)], p.&amp;nbsp;585<br /> *{{cite ODNB|id=35457|title=Peile, Sir James Braithwaite (1833–1906)|last=Hardiman|first=David}}<br /> <br /> {{Authority control}}<br /> <br /> {{DEFAULTSORT:Peile, James}}<br /> [[Category:Governors of Bombay]]<br /> [[Category:1833 births]]<br /> [[Category:1906 deaths]]<br /> [[Category:People from Liverpool]]<br /> [[Category:Knights Bachelor]]<br /> <br /> <br /> {{UK-diplomat-stub}}</div>

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