Thom's Irish Who's Who/O'Dwyer, Sir Michael Francis

O'DWYER, Sir Michael Francis, G.C.I.E. (1917) K.C.S.I. (1913) C.S.I. (1908);: F.R.G.S.; B.A. (Oxon.); educated St. Stanislaus College and Balliol College, Oxford; Lieut.-Governor of the Punjab, 1913 to 1919; Member of the Army in India Committee. 1919-20; entered Indian C.S., 1884; Assistant Commissioner, Punjab, 1885-9; Settlement Collector, 1889-95; Director of Dept. of Land Records and Agriculture, 1895-97; Settlement Commissioner in Rajputana States, 1897-1901; Revenue Commissioner N.W.F. Province, 1901-07; Offg. Resident, Hyderabad, 1907-9; Agent to Governor-General, Central India, 1910-13; Lieutenant-Governor of the Punjab, 1913-19; Member of the Esher Committee for Re-Organisation of the Army in India, 1919-20. Pubns.: Various reports on the Land Revenue, Settlements of Districts in British India and Native States; various articles in the Indian Reforms. Recns.: riding, tennis, golf. Son of late John O'Dwyer, Barronstown, Tipperary; b. 1864; m. 1896, Una (D.B.E.), dau. of late Mons. Bord, of Castles, France, and has issue one dau. Res.: 26 Brechin Place, South Kensington, London, S.W.7. Athenaeum Club, London.