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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>'''Sir Steyning William Edgerley''', KCSI, KCVO, CIE (16 August 1857 – 1 May 1935) was a British administrator in India. A member of the [[Indian Civil Service]], he held senior Secretariat appointments in the [[Government of Bombay]].<br />
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== Biography ==<br />
Educated at [[Shrewsbury School]], Edgerley passed into the [[Indian Civil Service]] by examination in 1877, and spent his probation in 1877–1879 at [[Balliol College, Oxford]]. He went to India in 1879 and was engaged in district work in [[Sindh|Sind]]. In 1888, he was appointed Under-Secretary in the Home Department of the [[Government of India]], and thereafter spent most of his career at provincial headquarters.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |date=3 May 1935 |title=Sir Steyning Edgerley |pages=18 |work=[[The Times]]}}</ref><br />
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Edgerley was private secretary to the [[Governor of Bombay]] ([[Donald Mackay, 11th Lord Reay|Lord Reay]], [[George Harris, 4th Baron Harris|Lord Harris]], and [[William Mansfield, 1st Viscount Sandhurst|Lord Sandhurst]]) from 1889 to 1895, when he was appointed a CIE. He was then selected by Lord Sandhurt to become Secretary to the Government of Bombay in the Political, Judicial, and Legislative Departments. In 1905, he became Chief Secretary to the Government of Bombay. In 1905, he was knighted a KCVO in connexion with his work on the Indian tour of the [[George V|Prince]] and [[Mary of Teck|Princess of Wales]].<ref>{{Cite news |date=16 May 1906 |title=The Prince And Princess In India |pages=7 |work=[[The Times]]}}</ref><ref name=":0" /><br />
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In 1907, he was appointed Political and Judicial Member, Government of Bombay, but was soon after appointed to be a member of the Decentralization Commission under [[Charles Hobhouse|Sir Charles Hobhouse]], coming to the notice of [[John Morley]].<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{London Gazette<br />
| issue = 28059<br />
| date = 13 September 1907<br />
| page = 6215<br />
}}</ref> In 1909, Morley appointed Edgerley to the [[Council of India]], serving until 1916. At the same time, he was a Commissioner of Income-tax at the India Office. He was made a KCSI shortly before his retirement in 1916.<ref>{{London Gazette<br />
| issue = 29423<br />
| date = 31 December 1915<br />
| pages = 82<br />
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}}</ref><br />
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== Family ==<br />
Edgerley married in 1898 Ethel Frances, ''née'' Pritchard (died 1912), daughter of the Bombay civilian [[Charles Bradley Pritchard|Sir Charles Pritchard]]. They had a son and a daughter.<br />
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[[Category:Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford]]<br />
[[Category:People educated at Shrewsbury School]]<br />
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[[Category:Companions of the Order of the Indian Empire]]</div>Ajay Kumar