Jogendra Singh

Sardar Sir Jogendra Singh KCSI (25 May 1877 – 3 December 1946) was a member of the Viceroy's Executive Council in India.

When the Executive Council of the British Viceroy of India was expanded in July 1942, Sir Jogendra Singh was nominated, becoming the first Sikh member.

Notably, his English translation of the verses of 11th-century Sufi saint Abdullah Ansari, titled The Persian Mystics (1939), carried a foreward by Mahatma Gandhi.

[3] Sir Jogendra Singh died of a paralytic stroke at Iqbal Nagar, district Montgomery (now in Pakistan) on 3 December 1946.

[5] He was succeeded by his second wife Winifred May Singh (née O'Donoghue), his six children, and twenty grandchildren, some of whom still reside at the Aira Holme Estate, Shimla.