Hugh Bomford

Sir Hugh Bomford CIE KBE (12 August 1882 – 19 January 1939) was a British administrator in India and an English first-class cricketer.

The son of Sir Gerald Bomford and Mary Florence Eteson, he was born in British India at Fort William in August 1882.

[4] Bomford was appointed to the Indian Civil Service in October 1906.

[1] He was made a Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire in the 1931 New Year Honours.

[1] Bomford was made a Knight Bachelor in the 1938 Birthday Honours,[7][8] the same year in which he served as the acting governor of the Central Provinces and Berar,[1] before being succeeded by Sir Francis Verner Wylie.