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<p>2A02:C7C:8869:8F00:4DE8:F380:D5C:EC50: </p> <hr /> <div>{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2021}}<br /> <br /> '''Sir James Houssemayne Du Boulay''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|KCIE|CSI}} (15 April 1868 in [[Hampshire]] – 26 November 1943) was a British civil servant.<br /> <br /> [[File:Sir J H Du B.jpg|thumb|Photo of Sir James Houssemayne Du Boulay KCIE CSI]]<br /> <br /> ==Life and career==<br /> Houssemayne Du Boulay was the son of James Thomas Houssemayne Du Boulay and Alice Mead Du Boulay (''née'' Cornish) and the great grandson of [[Francois Jacques Houssemayne Du Boulay]]. His mother's grandfather was [[Sir Robert Wilmot, 3rd Baronet]] (1765–1842) of Chaddesden. He was educated at [[Winchester College]] and [[Balliol College]] Oxford. On 31 July 1901 he married Freda Elais Butts Howell (1874–1957) granddaughter of [[Sir Thomas Howell]]. Lady Houssemayne Du Boulay was Lady in Waiting to [[Mary of Teck|Queen Mary]] (1911, [[Delhi Durbar]], India). They had four children.<br /> <br /> After university, Houssemayne Du Boulay was selected for the [[Indian Civil Service]]. Thereafter his positions included:<br /> * Bombay Presidency. <br /> * Lt -Col [[Indian Defence Force]].<br /> * Private Secretary to Governor of [[Bombay]], [[Henry Northcote, 1st Baron Northcote|Lord Northcote]].<br /> * Private Secretary to Governor of Bombay, [[Charles Cochrane-Baillie, 2nd Baron Lamington|Lord Lamington]].<br /> * Secretary to the Government of Bombay Political Department.<br /> * Private secretary to Viceroy of India, [[Charles Hardinge, 1st Baron Hardinge of Penshurst|Lord Hardinge of Penshurst]].<br /> * Secretary to Government of India Home Department.<br /> * Temporary member of Governor General's Executive Council.<br /> * Member of Indian Jails Committee.<br /> <br /> Houssemayne Du Boulay retired in 1922.<br /> <br /> ==See also==<br /> * [[Impact of the Hindu-German Conspiracy]]<br /> <br /> ==References==<br /> * Burke's Peerage Ltd ''Burke's Landed Gentry''; 18th ed. Vol. 1–3. <br /> * Lord Hardinge of Penshurst, ''My Indian Years 1910 - 1916''. London: John Murray, 1948<br /> * [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/nra/searches/pidocs.asp?P=P8561 National Archives of his papers]<br /> <br /> {{DEFAULTSORT:Du Boulay, James}}<br /> [[Category:1868 births]]<br /> [[Category:1943 deaths]]<br /> [[Category:People educated at Winchester College]]<br /> [[Category:Knights Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire]]<br /> [[Category:Indian Defence Force officers]]<br /> [[Category:Companions of the Order of the Star of India]]<br /> [[Category:Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford]]<br /> <br /> {{UK-gov-bio-stub}}</div>

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