Francis Verner Wylie

Sir Francis Verner Wylie GCIE KCSI (9 August 1891 – 1970) was an Indian Civil Servant.

[1] Francis Wylie was educated in Ireland at the Royal School, Dungannon, in County Tyrone, Ulster, and at Trinity College, Dublin.

During 1919–38 he served in the Indian Political Service and was appointed Prime Minister of Alwar State during 1933-38 and later as Governor of Central Provinces and Berar during 1938–40.

In 1941, Wylie succeeded Sir William Fraser-Tytler as British minister in Kabul, Afghanistan.

[3] In 1948, Wylie was appointed the British Government Director of the Suez Canal Company.