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Sir Norman BoltonKCIE CSI
BornHoratio Norman Bolton
1 February 1875
West Bromwich, Staffordshire, England
Died24 May 1965(1965-05-24) (aged 90)
Depwade, Norfolk, England
Alma materCorpus Christi College, Oxford
OccupationCivil servant

Sir Horatio Norman Bolton KCIE CSI (1 February 1875 – 24 May 1965) was a British civil servant in British India. He twice served as the Chief Commissioner of the North-West Frontier Province from 1923 until 1925 and again from 1926 until 1930.

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. He returned to England in 1930 due to ill health. He retired the next year.

He was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire in 1916, a Commander of the Order of the Star of India in 1918 and knighted in the Order of the Indian Empire in 1926.

In 1911, he married Fanny Ethel Francis (née Mansfield), daughter of the late Captain James Charles Henry Mansfield. They had one daughter. He died in Depwade, Norfolk, aged 90.

References

  1. ^ "Sir Norman Bolton". The Times. No. 56331. 26 May 1965. p. 14. Retrieved 8 May 2024 – via Gale.
  2. Brereton, J. M. (1992). "Red shirts at Peshawar". Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research. 70 (282): 87–100. ISSN 0037-9700. JSTOR 44229918.
Government offices
Preceded bySir John Loader Maffey Chief Commissioner of the
North-West Frontier Province
July 1923 - 3 December 1925 		Succeeded byWilliam John Keen
Preceded byWilliam John Keen Chief Commissioner of the
North-West Frontier Province
August 1926 - 10 May 1930 		Succeeded bySir Steuart Pears


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