Sir James Houssemayne Du Boulay (born Hampshire

Hampshire

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 15 April 1868 - died - 26 November 1943) KCIE

Order of the Indian Empire

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 (Knight Commander Indian Empire) (1911); CSI

Order of the Star of India

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 was a British civil servant in India.

Life and career

Du Boulay was the son of James Thomas Houssemayne Du Boulay and Alice Mead Du Boulay (née Cornish).
He was educated at Winchester College

Winchester College

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 and Balliol College Oxford. On 31 July 1901 he married Freda Elais Butts Howell (1874 - 1957), Lady in Waiting Queen Mary

Mary of Teck

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 (1911 Delhi Durbar

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 India). They had four children.

After university Du Boulay was selected for the Indian Civil Service. Thereafter his positions included:

• Bombay Presidency;
• Lt -Col Indian Defence Force
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• Private Secretary to Governor of Bombay, Lord Northcote
  Henry Northcote, 1st Baron Northcote
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• Private Secretary to Governor of Bombay, Lord Lamington
  Charles Cochrane-Baillie, 2nd Baron Lamington
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• Secretary to the Government of Bombay Political Department;
• Private secretary to Viceroy of India, Lord Hardinge of Penshurst
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• Secretary to Government of India Home Department.
• Temporary member of Governor General's Executive Council.
• Member of Indian Jails Committee.

Du Boulay retired in 1922.