Francis Mudie
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Sir Robert Francis Mudie KCSI, KCIE, OBE |
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| 1st Governor of West Punjab | |
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In office 15 August 1947 – 2 August 1949 |
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| Monarch | George VI |
| Governor-General |
Muhammad Ali Jinnah Khawaja Nazimuddin |
| Preceded by | First |
| Succeeded by | Sardar Abdur Rab Nishtar |
| Governor of Sindh | |
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In office 15 January 1946 – 13 August 1947 |
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| Monarch | George VI |
| Preceded by | Sir Hugh Dow |
| Succeeded by | Shaikh G.H. Hidayatullah |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
24 August 1890 Broughty Ferry, Scotland |
| Died |
15 September 1976 (aged 87) Broughty Ferry, Scotland |
| Alma mater | King's College, Cambridge |
| Nickname(s) | Frank |
Sir Robert Francis Mudie KCSI, KCIE, OBE (24 August 1890 – 15 September 1976) was a member of the Indian Civil Service during the British Raj. He was the last British Governor of Sind and after the partition of India and Pakistan in August 1947, he continued to serve as Governor of the West Punjab.
Robert Francis Mudie attended Seafield House in Broughty Ferry. George Cunningham and Rob Lockhart attended the same school and were to meet again in India. From Seafield house, he went on a scholarship to Fettes College, Edinburgh, and later on a mathematical scholarship to King's College, Cambridge. In 1911 he graduated as a wrangler.
After graduation Robert Francis Mudie spent a term as assistant master at Clifton College before commencing as assistant master at Eton College. After only four terms, he came to the conclusion that he had no interest in school mastering and after a six-month break he started studying for entrance examinations to join the Indian Civil Service (ICS).
ICS examinations started on 2'nd August 1914, two days before the war broke out.
Robert Francis Mudie had previously been a sergeant in the Officer Training Corps at Cambridge, and immediately applied for a commission. He was gazetted on 26'th August to the 6'th City of London Rifles, but was given permission to join two weeks later allowing him to complete the ICS entrance examinations.
A number of successful ICS candidates had joined the army before the examination results came out, and the War Office decided that successful candidates should be sent to India as soldiers and could join the service provided that within a year they had passed health, riding and language examinations. Robert Francis Mudie, one of the successful candidates, was tasked with becoming proficient in Bengali.
Mudie was transferred first to the Welsh Fusiliers, then to a territorial division before joining the 2/4 Somerset Light Infantry which was sent to India. The battalion sailed on the troop ship Saturnia, arriving in Bombay in the first week of January 1915. From Bombay the battalion was posted to Bangalore, where Mudie's company was detached to Malappuram and Mudie was sent with a platoon to Calicut, under the command of Raibert McDougall. In India the first British official he met was Charles Innes who was at the time district collector in Calicut and later became Governor of Burma.
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