Abdul Majid Khan Tarin

Khan Abdul Majid Khan Tarin (also spelt Abdul Majeed Khan) (1877–1939), Khan-Sahib,OBE, was a prominent magistrate, MLA and philanthropist of the North West Frontier Province of former British India.

He was the son of Sardar Muhammad Habib Khan Tarin (or Tareen), (c.1829/30-Dec.1888), Nawab Bahadur, Risaldar, CSI, an ex-cavalry officer and a landed jagirdar of Talokar and Dheri estates in Haripur, Hazara, NWFP. At his father's death Majid Khan was a young boy and the family estates were placed under the Court of Wards. He was initially taught at home by English tutors, then sent to the Aitchison College, Lahore, and then to a mission school in Simla. After his Matriculation from there he proceeded to England in 1899 and qualified as a barrister in 1901. He was called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn in April 1902.

On returning to India, he became a Junior Magistrate in the Punjab service, then a 1st Class Magistrate, Extra Assistant Commissioner and then Deputy Commissioner; he also served briefly as a Judge in the Punjab Sessions Courts and on retiring from service in 1934, he became an early and active member of the NWFP (now Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa in Pakistan) chapter of the All India Muslim League and a close associate of Sir Sahibzada Abdul Qayyum, also serving as a Member of the NWFP Legislative Assembly (1937–1939). Although keen to protect Muslim rights, he remained a firm preponent of a consolidated Muslim entity within a larger Indian confederation, till the end. He died at his ancestral village, Talokar, in June 1939.

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