Sir Bertrand James Glancy GCIE KCSI (31 December 1882 – 17 March 1953) was an Irish-born British colonial administrator and Governor of the Punjab between 1941 and 1946.
[1] In 1909 Glancy joined the Indian Civil Service and moved to the Political Department.
[1] In 1931, he was appointed by the Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir to head a commission to enquire into the grievances of Muslim subjects of the state.
[1] The "Glancy Commission", as his commission in Kashmir came to be known, recommended far-reaching reforms, introducing people's representation in legislative bodies, which led to the first general election in the state in 1934.
[4] Glancy had married Grace Steele in 1914 and had one son, on his retirement they went to live in Kenya where he died aged 70 on 17 March 1953.