Sir Charles Edward Bernard KCSI

Order of the Star of India

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 (21 December 1837 – 19 September 1901) was Chief Commissioner of Lower Burma

Lower Burma

Lower Burma is a geographic region of Burma and includes the low-lying Irrawaddy delta , as well as coastal regions of the country ....

 from 2 July 1880 to 2 March 1883 and Chief Commissioner of Burma

Myanmar

Burma , officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar , is a country in Southeast Asia. Burma is bordered by China on the northeast, Laos on the east, Thailand on the southeast, Bangladesh on the west, India on the northwest, the Bay of Bengal to the southwest, and the Andaman Sea on the south....

 from 25 September 1886 to 12 March 1887.

Charles Bernard was born in Bristol

Bristol

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, England

England

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. He was the son of Dr James Fogo Bernard, MD and Marianne Amelia Lawrence. In 1862 he married Susan Capel Tawney, and they had eight children. Bernard was educated at Rugby School

Rugby School

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; Addiscombe; and Haileybury. In 1857 he passed into the ICS and was posted to the Punjab

Punjab (British India)

Punjab was a province of British India, it was one of the last areas of the Indian subcontinent to fall under British rule. With the end of British rule in 1947 the province was split between West Punjab, which went to Pakistan, and East Punjab, which went to India...

. From 1874 to 1877 he was Chief Commissioner of the Central Provinces

Central Provinces

The Central Provinces was a province of British India. It comprised British conquests from the Mughals and Marathas in central India, and covered parts of present-day Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Maharashtra states. Its capital was Nagpur....

. From 1887 to 1901 he was Secretary of the Department of Revenue, Statistics and Commerce, India Office

India Office

The India Office was a British government department created in 1858 to oversee the colonial administration of India, i.e. the modern-day nations of Bangladesh, Burma, India, and Pakistan, as well as territories in South-east and Central Asia, the Middle East, and parts of the east coast of Africa...

. He died on either 13 or 19 September 1901 at Chamonix

Chamonix

Chamonix-Mont-Blanc or, more commonly, Chamonix is a commune in the Haute-Savoie département in the Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France. It was the site of the 1924 Winter Olympics, the first Winter Olympics...

, France

France

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External links

• Myanmar (Burma) at www.worldstatesmen.org