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{{Short description|British corporate executive (1904–1978)}}
Sir '''Anthony Joseph Elkins''' [[CBE]] (1904–1978)<ref>{{Cite web|title=Descendants of William Elkins|url=http://green.gen.name/elkins/d1.htm#i4105|access-date=2021-10-27|website=green.gen.name}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite news|date=2 November 1978|title=Obituary: Sir Anthony Elkins|page=19|work=The Times|publication-place=London|url=https://archive.org/details/NewsUK1978UKEnglish/Nov%2002%201978%2C%20The%20Times%2C%20%2360448%2C%20UK%20%28en%29/page/n17/mode/2up|via=The Internet Archive}}
* {{cite web |title=Eighth Generation: Sir Anthony Elkins |url=http://green.gen.name/elkins/d1.htm#i4105 |website=John Green's Family Data}}{{rs|date=February 2022}}</ref> was a British corporate executive. Educated at [[Haileybury College]], Elkins arrived in India in 1924, at the age of 20. He rose to become chairman of Gillanders Arbuthnot and Co and its successor, the [[Darjeeling Himalayan Railway|Darjeeling–Himalayan Railway Co]],<ref name=":0" /> chairman of the Indian Copper Corporation (later nationalised and merged into [[Hindustan Copper]]),<ref>{{Cite news|date=26 November 1953|title=Indian Copper Corporation Limited|page=5|work=The Times of India|location=Bombay|url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/501788132/|id={{ProQuest|501788132}} }}</ref> director of the [[Imperial Bank of India]],<ref name=":1">{{Cite book|last1=Westrip|first1=Joyce P.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ALbaCwe6VHkC&pg=PA312|title=Colonial Cousins: A Surprising History of Connections Between India and Australia|last2=Holroyde|first2=Peggy|date=2010|publisher=Wakefield Press|isbn=978-1-86254-841-1|language=en}}</ref> president of the [[Bengal Chamber of Commerce and Industry]],<ref>{{Cite web|title=The Bengal Chamber of Commerce and Industry |url=https://bengalchamber.com/agm14/pages/president.html|access-date=2021-10-27|website=bengalchamber.com}}</ref> president of the [[Associated Chambers of Commerce]] (ASSOCHAM),<ref>{{Cite book|last=Ghatak|first=Aditi Roy|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YMEVAQAAMAAJ|title=Partnership for Progress: The ASSOCHAM Story, 1920–1995|date=1995|publisher=Associated Chambers of Commerce & Industry of India|pages=71, 82, 286|language=en}}</ref> and president of the [[The Bengal Club|Bengal Club]].<ref name=":1" /> In 1950, Prime Minister [[Jawaharlal Nehru]]. invited Elkins to serve as the only British advisor to the [[First five-year plan (India)|First Five Year-Plan.]]<ref name=":1" /> Elkins later returned to Britain, serving as vice chairman of the [[Army & Navy Stores (United Kingdom)|Army & Navy Stores]] and chairman of [[Bryant & May|Bryant and May]] and the British Match Co.<ref name=":0" /> Elkins received a CBE for his services during the Second World War, where was appointed as Controller of Supplies in Bengal, and was knighted in 1952.<ref name=":0" /> He retired to [[Perth]], Australia, in the 1970s.<ref name=":1" />

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Rajnishkumar123 at 19:04, 29 January 2026