Sir James Braithwaite Peile (27 April 1833 – 25 April 1906) was a British administrator during the British Raj, who served as the acting Governor of Bombay in March 1885.
[1][2] Born in Liverpool, Peile was educated at Repton School, where his father, Thomas Braithwaite Peile, was headmaster,[3] and then went up to Oriel College, Oxford.
He held a number of positions over the following thirty years, including municipal commissioner of Bombay, political agent in Kathiawar, and vice-chancellor of Bombay University.
After a career mostly spent in Bombay, he retired in 1887 and was appointed to the Council of India, a position he held for a further fifteen years.
Politically, he supported increased devolution of powers to the Indian provinces and a limited increase in Indian participation in the civil service.