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{{Infobox person
|name = Edward Vere Levinge
|image =
|caption =
|birth_date = {{Birth date|1867|5|24|df=yes}}
|birth_place = [[Cuttack]], India
|death_date = {{Death date and age|1953|4|24|1867|5|24|df=yes}}
|death_place = [[Marandellas]], Southern Rhodesia
|other_names =
|known_for = Lieutenant-Governor of Bihar and Orissa
|occupation = Colonial administrator
|nationality = United Kingdom
|spouse = Alice Adele née Thomas
}}
'''Sir Edward Vere Levinge''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|KCIE|CSI}} (1867–1954) was an administrator in the [[Indian Civil Service]] who rose to serve as acting [[Lieutenant-Governor]] of the [[British Raj]] Province known as [[Bengal Presidency|Bihar and Orissa]]. He held that office for the months of April–July 1918, being an interregnum in the office of [[Edward Albert Gait]].<ref name=ODNB>{{ODNBweb|id=93241|title=Colonial administrators and post-independence leaders in India (1616–2000)}}</ref>

==Early life==
Edward Vere Levinge was born on 24 May 1867 at [[Cuttack]] in [[British India]]<ref name=OxfordMenp369>{{cite book |title=Oxford Men 1880-1892: with a record of their schools, honours, and degrees |url=https://archive.org/details/cu31924030615649 |first=Joseph |last=Foster |page=[https://archive.org/details/cu31924030615649/page/n320 369] |location=Hertford |publisher=J. Parker |year=1893 }}</ref><ref name="obit">"Sir Edward Levinge." Times [London, England] 28 Jan. 1954: 10. The Times Digital Archive. Web. 28 Apr. 2013.</ref><ref>Note that Burkes has his birth as the 6 May 1867</ref>

He was the second son of Harry Corbyn Levinge and his wife, Ellen. His father had worked as secretary to the government of Bengal's Public Works Department and was a son of the sixth [[Levinge Baronets|Levinge baronet]].<ref name=OxfordMenp369/><ref name=Burkes1914/>

Levinge was educated at [[Cheltenham College]] and then [[Matriculation#United Kingdom|matriculated]] at [[Balliol College, Oxford]] on 24 October 1885.<ref name=OxfordMenp369/>

==Indian Civil Service==
Levinge sat the [[competitive examination]] for the Indian Civil Service in the same year.<ref name=IndiaList1905/> Graduating in 1888 with a second-class BA degree in law,<ref name=OxfordMenp369/> Levinge arrived in Bengal on 28 November 1888. His first position was as an assistant magistrate and assistant [[District collector]], and then he worked in various departments from November 1893. In April 1896 he was appointed as joint magistrate and deputy collector, becoming magistrate and District Collector in July 1898. He held those offices at the time of publication of the 1905 ''[[India List]]''.<ref name=IndiaList1905>{{cite book |title=The India List and Office List |publisher=India Office |year=1905 |url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_3VQTAAAAYAAJ |page=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_3VQTAAAAYAAJ/page/n551 547] |access-date=2011-11-11}}</ref>

Official recognition of his work came with the award of [[Order of the Star of India|Companion of the Order of the Star of India]] (CSI) in 1911,<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=28559 |date=8 December 1911 |page=9358 }}</ref> and in 1916 he was appointed a [[Order of the Indian Empire|Knight Commander, Order of the Indian Empire]] (KCIE).<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=29423 |date=1 January 1916 |page=83 |supp=y }}</ref>

==Family and later life==
He was married to Alys Adèle Thomas on 1 December 1900 in London, and the couple had a daughter Vera Alys born in 1911.<ref name=Burkes1914>{{cite book |title=General and heraldic dictionary of the peerage and baronetage of the British empire |publisher=Burke's Peerage Limited |year=1914 |page=1211 |url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_Pf8cAAAAYAAJ |access-date=2011-11-11}}</ref> Levinge's granddaughter, Vera Alys's daughter, H.E. Ambassador [[:fr:Marie-Therese Pictet-Althann]], born in 1949,<ref>{{citation|title=Burke's Peerage and Baronetage 106th edition |publisher=Burke's Peerage Limited |year=1999 |page=1696 }}</ref> is Permanent Observer of the Sovereign Order of Malta to the United Nations in Geneva. Levinge died on 24 January 1954 aged 86 at Marandellas in Southern Rhodesia, his wife Alys having predeceased him on 1 May 1952.<ref name="obit" /><ref>{{London Gazette |issue=39722 |date=19 December 1952 |page=6707 }}</ref>

==See also==
*[[List of Governors of Bihar and Orissa]]

==References==
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==Further reading==
*{{cite book |title=The Balliol College Register, 1832-1914 |first=Edward |last=Hilliard |year=1914 |publisher=Private circulation |pages=[https://archive.org/details/balliolcollegere00ballrich/page/198 198]–199 |url=https://archive.org/details/balliolcollegere00ballrich}}

==External links==
*[http://thepeerage.com/p49792.htm#i497912 Edward Vere Levinge at thepeerage.com] 

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