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'''Lieutenant-Colonel Aubrey John "A.J." O'Brien''' {{postnominals|country=GBR|CBE|CIE}} (5 December 1870 – 31 August 1930) was an officer in the [[British Indian Army]] and a writer on India.<ref name="Who Was Who 1929-1940, 1941">''Who Was Who 1929-1940'' (published 1941)</ref><br />
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[[Image:AubreyOBrienBrompton01.jpg|thumb|right|Funerary monument, Brompton Cemetery, London]]<br />
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==Education==<br />
O'Brien's father was Edward O'Brien of the [[Bengal Civil Service]]. Aubrey O'Brien was educated at [[Dover College]] and at the [[Royal Military Academy Sandhurst|Sandhurst]].<br />
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==Military career==<br />
He served three and a half years in the [[Loyal North Lancashire Regiment]], and one and a half years in the 110th [[Maratha Light Infantry]] before spending 29 years in the [[Punjab (British India)|Punjab]] Commission.<ref name="Who Was Who 1929-1940, 1941"/><br />
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==Judicial career==<br />
He also remained the district judge as a Lieutenant at [[Bannu District|Bannu]] (then part of British India, now in Pakistan). On 9 November 1901 he was promoted to the rank of captain and appointed as the 1st [[Deputy Commissioner (India)|Deputy Commissioner]] of the newly formed [[Mianwali District]] (then part of British India, now in Pakistan).<ref>''Gazetter of the Mianwali District 1915'', Sang-e-Meel Publications Lahore, Pakistan</ref> He served Mianwali not once but three times, the second time in 1906 and the third time in 1914.<ref>Dr. Liaqat Ali Khan Niazi, ''Tareekh-e-Mianwali'', Sang-e-Meel Publications Lahore, Pakistan</ref> However he was promoted to the rank of major during his third tenure at Mianwali.<br />
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==Awards and honours==<br />
O'Brien was made [[Order of the British Empire|CIE]] in 1906 and [[CBE]] in 1919.<ref name="Who Was Who 1929-1940, 1941"/><br />
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==Death==<br />
He died in [[Kensington]], aged 59, from undisclosed causes and <ref>Obituary, ''The Times'', 2 September 1930</ref> was interred at [[Brompton Cemetery]], London.<br />
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==Selected works==<br />
*''Female infanticide in the Punjab'', Folklore 19:3 (1908), pp.&nbsp;261–75<br />
*''Mianwali Folklore Notes'', Folklore 22:1 (1911), pp.&nbsp;73–77<br />
*''The Mohammedan Saints of the Western Punjab'', ''The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland'' 41 (1911), pp.&nbsp;509–520 (with Reginald Bolster) <br />
*''Cupid and Cartridges (Sketches of Sport in the Punjab)'', 1911 (with Reginald Bolster) <br />
*''Bahawalpur: Transformation of an Indian State'', ''[[The Times]]'', 4 November 1926<br />
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