Robert GILES CIE [29330]

  General Notes:

Durham School 1861; St John's Cambridge (exhibitioner) 1865; BA 1868; MA subsequently; Sind Commission India 1900; CIE 1899; JP. for Sussex 1908.
On his retirement a portrait painted by Harold Speed was publicly subscribed for and hung in the Frere Hall at Karachi.

Robert Giles CIE JP (27 September 1846 \endash 17 March 1928) was a British civil servant in colonial Bombay.
Giles was born in Grimsthorpe, the son of Archdeacon John Douglas Giles, Canon of Lincoln and Rector of Willoughby, and Sarah Elizabeth. His brother Edward Giles CIE was also a civil servant.
Giles was a career civil servant who was stationed only in Sind. He attended Durham Grammar School and St. John's College, Cambridge, earning his B.A. in 1869 and M.A. in 1874. He was appointed to the Sind Commission in 1868. He worked for the Bombay Revenue Survey, and was Deputy Collector, Deputy Superintendent of Police, and Educational Inspector. He served as the Chief Commissioner of Sind from 1900\endash 02.[1] He was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire in the 1899 Birthday Honours.
He retired in April 1902 and returned to live in Midhurst, Sussex, where he was J.P. for West Sussex. He died in Monte Carlo, aged 81.
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Robert married Isabel THOM [29331] [MRIN: 10357], daughter of General THOM I.M.S. [29332] and Unknown, in 1886.