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'''Sir Alexander Phillips Muddiman''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|KCSI|CIE}} (14 February 1875 – 17 July 1928) was a [[United Kingdom|British]] administrator in [[India]].<br />
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Muddiman was born in [[Leighton Buzzard]], [[Bedfordshire]], [[England]], and was educated at [[Wimborne School]] and [[University College, London]]. He joined the [[Indian Civil Service]] in 1897 and was posted to [[Bengal Presidency]] in 1899 as an assistant [[district collector|collector]] and [[magistrate]] in [[Bihar]]. In 1902 he was appointed Under-Secretary to the Government of Bengal, in 1905 [[Registrar general|Registrar]] of the [[Calcutta High Court]], and in April 1910 Deputy Secretary of the Legislative Department of the [[British Raj|Government of India]]. He became Secretary in 1915.<br />
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In 1919 he was appointed president of the Council of State, the upper house of the new Indian Legislature. In March 1924 he was appointed Home Member of the Government of India and Leader of the Legislative Assembly, the lower house of the Legislature.<br />
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At the end of 1927 he was appointed [[Governor of the United Provinces]], but he was already a sick man and in July 1928 he died of [[heart failure]] at [[Naini Tal]].<br />
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Muddiman was appointed [[Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire]] (CIE) in 1913 and [[Companion of the Order of the Star of India]] (CSI) in the [[1920 New Year Honours]].<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=31712 |date=30 December 1919 |page=4 |supp=y}}</ref> He was [[Knight Bachelor|knighted]] in the [[1922 New Year Honours]] and appointed [[Knight Commander of the Order of the Star of India]] (KCSI) in the [[1926 Birthday Honours]].<br />
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==Titles==<br />
*1875–1913: Alexander Phillips Muddiman<br />
*1913–1920: Alexander Phillips Muddiman, CIE<br />
*1920–1922: Alexander Phillips Muddiman, CSI, CIE<br />
*1922–1926: Sir Alexander Phillips Muddiman, CSI, CIE<br />
*1926–1928: Sir Alexander Phillips Muddiman, KCSI, CIE<br />
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==Footnotes==<br />
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==References==<br />
*Biography, ''[[Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]]''<br />
*Obituary, ''[[The Times]]'', 18 June 1928<br />
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