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Egerton Sir Robert Eyles, 1827-1912 Lieutenant Governor of the Punjab
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Robert Eyles Egerton served as a British administrator in India after being educated at Exeter College, Oxford, and Haileybury. He began his career in India in 1849. During the Indian Mutiny of 1857 he served as Deputy Commissioner at Lahore. In 1869, he was appointed Commissioner of Nagpur and, in 1871, he was made Financial Commissioner of the Punjab. In 1879 he was appointed Lieutenant Governor of the Punjab. Egerton retired in 1882. There is a memorial to Egerton and his wife, Mary Warren, in the Cathedral Church of the Resurrection, Lahore.