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{{Infobox person
| name = Sir Stanley Ismay
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| birth_date = {{birth date|1848|07|01|df=y}}
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| death_date = {{Death date and age|1914|06|08|1848|07|01|df=yes}}
| death_place = [[Ootacamund]], India
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| nationality = [[United Kingdom|British]]
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| relations = [[Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay]]
| spouse = Beatrice Read
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| occupation = Barrister, judge and colonial administrator
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'''Sir Stanley Ismay''', {{postnominals|country=GBR|sep=,|KCSI}} (1 July 1848 – 8 June 1914)<ref name=WWW>ISMAY, Sir Stanley’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016</ref> was a [[United Kingdom|British]] civil servant and judge in [[British Raj|British India]], where he spent most of his career in the [[Central Provinces]], acting as [[List of Governors of the Central Provinces and Berar|Chief Commissioner]] in 1906. After resigning from the civil service, he was a member of the [[Imperial Legislative Council]] 1905–1908, and Chief Judge of the [[Karnataka High Court|Chief Court of Mysore]] from 1908 to 1912.

==Career==
Ismay was born in 1848, the son of William Ismay, of [[Milton-next-Sittingbourne]], [[Kent]], and educated at [[Bromsgrove School]].<ref name=Debrett>Debrett's Baronetage and Knightage, 1914</ref> He was also distant cousin to shipowner [[Thomas Henry Ismay]].

He entered the [[Indian Civil Service (British India)|Indian Civil Service]] in 1869, and arrived in India in November 1871 to take up the position of Assistant Commissioner in the Central Provinces. He was [[called to the Bar]] at [[Middle Temple]] in 1883.<ref>{{Cite newspaper The Times|articlename=Calls to the Bar|day_of_week=Thursday|date=7 June 1883|page_number=11|issue=30840}}</ref> Following a year of special duties in [[Kalahandi State]] in 1882, he was appointed Registrar in the Judicial Commissioner′s Court in May 1884. He officiated as Inspector-General of Police and Jails in the provinces in 1885 and 1890, and published a book on ''Rules for the Superintendence and Management of Jails in the Central Provinces'' (1890). From December 1889 he was a Judge in the [[Small Causes Court]] in [[Jabalpur]], and in January the following year he was appointed Deputy Commissioner. In January 1892 he was appointed an additional Judge in the [[Sessions Court]] and from June 1895 a Divisional Judge. After officiating as [[Judicial Commissioner]] in the Central Provinces in February 1895, he was permanently appointed to this position in June 1897.<ref>{{cite book |title= India List and India Office List for 1905 |publisher=Harrison and Sons, London |year=1905 |page=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_3VQTAAAAYAAJ/page/n534 530]|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_3VQTAAAAYAAJ |accessdate=28 April 2017}}</ref> The position of Judicial Commissioner was the chief judicial appellate authority in the province, and he occasionally acted as [[Chief Commissioner]] (the highest civil authority in the province) when the holder of that office was not present, including in the absence of [[John Ontario Miller]] for three months in 1906.<ref>{{Cite newspaper The Times|articlename=Court Circular|day_of_week=Tuesday|date=10 July 1906|page_number=10|issue=38068}}</ref> He retired from the Civil Service in 1906.<ref name=WWW />

Ismay served as an Additional Member of the [[Imperial Legislative Council]] from 1905 until 1908. He was appointed [[Chief Judge]] (similar to Chief Justice) of the Chief Court of [[Mysore State|Mysore]] in 1908, and served as such until 1912. The Chief Court of Mysore was renamed High Court of Mysore in 1920, and is now the [[Karnataka High Court]].

He was [[Lieutenant colonel (British Army and Royal Marines)|lieutenant-colonel]] commanding the Nagpur Volunteer Rifles.<ref name=Debrett />

Ismay was appointed a Companion of the [[Order of the Star of India]] (CSI) in the [[1901 Birthday Honours]] list on 9 November 1901,<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=27374 |date=9 November 1901 |page=7287 |supp=y}}</ref> and promoted to a Knight Commander (KCSI) in the Order in the [[1911 Delhi Durbar Honours]].<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=28559 |date=8 December 1911 |pages=9356–9357 }}</ref>

He died at [[Ootacamund]] in India on 8 June 1914.<ref name=TTObituary>{{Cite newspaper The Times|articlename=Obituary - Sir Stanley Ismay|day_of_week=Thursday|date=11 June 1914|page_number=10|issue=40547}}</ref>

==Family==
Ismay married, in 1875, Beatrice Ellen Read, daughter of Hastings Read. Lady Ismay died on 8 May 1932.<ref>{{Cite newspaper The Times|articlename=Wills and bequests|day_of_week=Thursday|date=30 June 1932|page_number=19|issue=46173}}</ref> They had two sons and two daughters:<ref name=WWW /><ref name=Debrett />
*Florence Edith Ismay (b.1876), who married Edward Robert Kaye Blenkinsop, CIE, Chief Secretary of the Central Provinces.
*Stanley Claude Ismay (b.1878), who married Margaret McBean and lived in Calcutta.
*Beatrice Maud Ismay (b.1883), who married 1st Major Henry Newton Kelly, 33rd Punjabis, and 2nd (after his death) Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Malcolm Jerome Alves, DSO (1883–1940), of the [[Royal Artillery]].<ref>ALVES, Lt-Col Henry Malcolm Jerome’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016</ref>
*[[Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay|Hastings Ismay]] (1887–1965), was a [[British Indian Army]] officer and diplomat, who was created Baron Ismay.

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