William Kincaid (civil servant)

A member of the Indian Civil Service, he rose to the rank of Major-General and was sometime Resident of Bhopal.

[1] Kincaid was born on 30 October 1831 and went to India as an Ensign in the Madras Army in March 1849.

In 1864 his career in Malwa began when he was appointed to adjust boundaries disputes in the Bhopal Agency.

In 1866 he shifted to Bundelkhand as an assistant political agent and was a judge and cantonment magistrate in Nowgong, Chhatarpur.

In 1891 he moved to Italy, but by the time of his death on 2 November 1909, he had returned to Britain.