Lepel Griffin
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Sir Lepel Henry Griffin KCSI (1838-1908) was a British administrator and diplomat in colonial India. He was also a writer.
[edit] Career
He entered the Indian Civil Service in 1860. In 1880 he became Chief Secretary of the Punjab.[1] He was sent as a diplomatic representative to Kabul, at the end of the Second Afghan War.[2] He was then Governor-General's Agent in Central India and Resident in Indore; and Resident in Hyderabad.
He collaborated with the pioneer Indian photographer Lala Deen Dayal.[3]
He was a proponent of an Anglo-American union, he addressed a meeting on 15 October, 1898 in Luton, on the subject of the suggested Anglo-American union, Col. John Hay, the former United States Ambassador at London attended the meeting.[4]
[edit] Bibliography
- The Rajas of the Punjab (1873)
- Famous monuments of Central India (1886)
- The Panjab Chiefs (1890) revised as Chiefs and Families of note in the Punjab (1909)
- The Great Republic
- Ranjit Singh and the Sikh Barrier Between Our Growing Empire and Central Asia
