George Abell (civil servant and cricketer)
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Sir George Edmond Brackenbury Abell KCIE OBE (22 June 1904 – 11 January 1989) was an English civil servant and cricketer. Although his civil service career was the more significant, he was an excellent all-round sportsman, who won Blues for Oxford at cricket, rugby union and hockey as well as playing county cricket for Worcestershire. He was born in Worcester, and died at the age of 84 in Ramsbury, Wiltshire.
Abell was educated at Marlborough College and Corpus Christi College, Oxford. In 1928 he entered the Indian Civil Service and was posted to the Pubjab. He was Private Secretary to the Governor of the Punjab 1941–43 and then private secretary to the last two viceroys of India, Lord Wavell and Lord Mountbatten. He was appointed OBE in 1943, and CIE in the 1946 New Year Honours. In 1947, shortly before Indian independence, he was knighted KCIE. He returned to the United Kingdom and was a director of the Bank of England 1952–64 and First Civil Service Commissioner 1964–67.
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