Sir Robert Benson Ewbank, CSI,London Gazette 1 January 1934 CIE (22 October 1883 – 2 September 1967) Obituary: Sir Robert Ewbank The Times (London, England), Tuesday, 5 Sep 1967; pg. 10; Issue 57038 was an eminent British colonial civil servant in the twentieth century.
Educated at Carlisle Grammar School and The Queen's College, OxfordUniversity IntelligenceThe Times (London, England), Wednesday, 11 Dec 1901; pg. 6; Issue 36635 he was Registrar of Co-operative Societies for the Bombay Presidency from 1911 to 1919; Deputy Secretary to the Government of India from 1920 to 1924 (and Acting Secretary between 1926 and 1927); its representative in East Africa from 1927 to 1928; and General Secretary to the Government of Bombay from 1929 to 1934. From 1936 to 1939 he was a Member of the Commission of Government of NewfoundlandThe Newfoundland Government The Times (London, England), Friday, 29 May 1936; pg. 13; Issue 47387 in charge of Natural Resources. In retirement he was Chairman of the Lake District Committee of the National Trust from 1948 to 1962; a member of the Church Assembly from 1950 to 1960; and High Sheriff of Westmorland from 1957 to 58.‘EWBANK, Sir Robert Benson’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012; online edn, Nov 2012 accessed 12 Dec 2012
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External links Monograph, scrapbooks and photograph album relating to R B Ewbank's life and career in the Indian Civil Service at Cumbria Archive Centre, Kendal