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Sir Ludovic Charles Porter KCSI KCIE OBE was a senior British administrator in India. ==Life== He was the second son of Ludovic Porter (1836-1904), owner of sugar plantations in British Guiana, and his wife Maria (1835-1901), youngest daughter of the Reverend George Hole (1798-1859), rector of Chulmleigh, and his wife Jane (1800-1864), daughter of Robert Hawgood Crew.〔"England and Wales Census, 1871", database with images at FamilySearch https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V5RT-HTB retrieved 15 October 2015〕 After attending university he entered the Indian Civil Service, becoming in 1890 Secretary of the Education Department of the Government of India. From 1911 to 1915 he was a Member of the Council of the Governor-General of India and from 1920 a Member of Council for the United Provinces.〔« Kelly's Handbook to the Titled, Landed and Official Classes 1929 » Kelly's Directories Ltd, London,1929〕 In 1922 he was Acting Governor of the United Provinces. ==Honours== In addition to being made a Companion of the Order of the Star of India in the 1916 New Year Honours and an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 1920 New Year Honours, he was awarded two knighthoods, first in the 1921 New Year Honours as a Knight Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire and secondly in the 1923 New Year Honours as a Knight Commander of the Order of the Star of India.〔« CENTRAL CHANCERY OF THE ORDERS OF KNIGHTHOOD. St. James's Palace, S.W. 1, 1st January, 1923. The KING has been graciously pleased to make the following promotion in, and appointments to, the Most Exalted Order of the Star of India— To be Knights Commanders of the said Most Exalted Order …. Sir Ludovic Charles Porter, K.C.I.E., C.S.I., O.B.E., Indian Civil Service, Member of Council, United Provinces » SUPPLEMENT TO THE LONDON GAZETTE, 1 JANUARY 1923 p4 https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/32782/supplement/4/data.pdf retrieved 13 October 2015〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ludovic Charles Porter」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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