Dictionary of Indian Biography/Ashburner, Lionel Robert

by Charles Edward Buckland

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ASHBURNER, LIONEL ROBERT (1827-)

I.C.S.: born 1827: educated at Haileybury: entered the Bombay Civil Service in 1848, and retired in 1883: in the mutiny, 1857, raised and organized a body of horse and foot to protect the E. frontier of Gujarat: was Special Commissioner to try offences against the State: tried and convicted certain chiefs: C.S.I.: Member of Council in Bombay, 1877–83: acted as Governor of Bombay from March 13 to April 28, 1880.