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'''Peter William Monie''' [[Order of the Star of India|CSI]] (30 March 1877 – 11 December 1946<ref>Death Notice, ''[[The Times]]'', 12 December 1946</ref>) was a [[United Kingdom|British]] administrator in [[India]] who later became a [[clergyman]] and was first honorary [[general secretary]] of [[Toc H]], from 1925 to 1935.

Monie was born in [[Rothesay, Bute|Rothesay]], [[Isle of Bute|Bute]], [[Scotland]]. He was educated at [[Irvine Royal Academy]], the [[University of Glasgow]], and [[Balliol College, Oxford]]. He joined the [[Indian Civil Service]] in 1900 and was posted to [[Bombay Presidency]] as an Assistant [[District collector|Collector]] and Assistant Judge. In 1905, he was appointed Under-Secretary to the Government of Bombay and to the Home Department of the Government of India in 1907. From 1913, he served as Acting Collector of [[Nawabshah District]], [[Sind Division|Sind]], and in 1915 he was appointed Secretary to the Government of Bombay. He became Municipal Commissioner for the [[City of Bombay]] in 1916, Deputy Director of Development for Bombay in 1920, and retired in 1925.

Having been ordained into the [[Scottish Episcopal Church]], he served as an assistant [[curate]] at [[St Mary's Cathedral, Glasgow]] from 1936 and was later appointed [[Rector (ecclesiastical)|rector]] of [[Old St Paul's Church]] in [[Edinburgh]], a post he held until his death.

Monie was appointed [[Companion of the Order of the Star of India]] (CSI) in the 1920 New Year Honours.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=31712 |date=30 December 1919 |page=4 |supp=y}}</ref>

==Footnotes==
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==References==
*Biography, ''[[Who Was Who]]''

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