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'''Sir Robert Benson Ewbank''', [[Order of the Indian Empire|CSI]],<ref>[http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/34010/supplements/4 London Gazette 1 January 1934]</ref> [[Order of the Star of India|CIE]] (22 October 1883 – 2 September 1967) <ref>''Obituary: Sir Robert Ewbank'' [[The Times]] (London, England), Tuesday, 5 Sep 1967; pg. 10; Issue 57038</ref> was an eminent [[British people|British]] [[Colonialism|colonial]] [[civil servant]] in the twentieth century.<br />
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Educated at [[Carlisle Grammar School]] and [[The Queen's College, Oxford]]<ref>''University Intelligence''[[The Times]] (London, England), Wednesday, 11 Dec 1901; pg. 6; Issue 36635</ref> he was Registrar of Co-operative Societies for the [[Bombay Presidency]] from 1911 to 1919; Deputy Secretary to the [[Civil Services of India|Government of India]] from 1920 to 1924 (and Acting Secretary between 1926 and 1927) ; [[Civil Services of India|its]] representative in [[East Africa]] from 1927 to 1928; and General Secretary to the [[Government of Bombay]] from 1929 to 1934. From 1936 to 1939 he was a Member of the [[Commission of Government|Commission of Government of Newfoundland]]<ref>''The Newfoundland Government'' [[The Times]] (London, England), Friday, 29 May 1936; pg. 13; Issue 47387</ref> in charge of Natural Resources. In retirement he was Chairman of the [[Lake District]] Committee of the [[National Trust]] from 1948 to 1962; a member of the [[Church Assembly]] from 1950 to 1960; and [[High Sheriff of Westmorland]] from 1957 to 58.<ref>‘EWBANK, Sir Robert Benson’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012 ; online edn, Nov 2012 [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U50026, accessed 12 Dec 2012]</ref><br />
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* [http://archiveweb.cumbria.gov.uk/calmview/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=WDX+512&pos=1 Monograph, scrapbooks and photograph album relating to R B Ewbank's life and career in the Indian Civil Service at Cumbria Archive Centre, Kendal]<br />
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