He twice served as the Chief Commissioner of the North-West Frontier Province from 1923 until 1925 and again from 1926 until 1930.
[1] He was educated at Rossall School and Corpus Christi College, Oxford.
He entered the Indian Civil Service in 1897 and was sent to Punjab the next year.
He spent nearly his entire career in Peshawar, and was serving as Chief Commissioner during the 1920 uprising of the Pashtuns under Abdul Ghaffar Khan.
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