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'''Sir Evan Meredith Jenkins''' {{postnominals|country=GBR|GCIE|KCSI}} (2 February 1896 – 19 November 1985) was a British [[colonial administrator]] and the last [[governor]] of the [[Punjab (India)|Punjab]] in the [[British Empire]].<ref>[https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/the-last-governor-sir-evan-jenkins-in-the-punjab-194647%28c42fed3e-a465-4717-bc02-e65800fd14d3%29.html The Last Governor: Sir Evan Jenkins in the Punjab 1946-47]. Accessed 4 June 2015</ref><br />
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==Life==<br />
[[File:Sir John Lewis Jenkins KCSI (1857–1912).jpg|thumb|Bust of Evan Jenkins' father [[John Lewis Jenkins|Sir John Lewis Jenkins]] at [[Coronation Park, Delhi]].]] He was a son of [[John Lewis Jenkins|Sir John Lewis Jenkins]] and his wife Florence Mildred, second daughter of Sir Arthur Trevor,<ref name = "Walford">{{cite book | last = Walford | first = Edward | title = The County Families of the United Kingdom | year = 1919 | publisher = Spottiswoode, Ballantyne & Co. Ltd | location = London | pages = 724 }}</ref> and a brother of [[David Jenkins, Baron Jenkins]]. He was educated at [[Rugby School]] and [[Balliol College, Oxford]]. He joined the [[Indian Civil Service]] in 1920 and held various posts in the Punjab commission and Central Secretariat. In 1937 he was appointed [[List of Chief Commissioners of Delhi|Chief Commissioner of Delhi]] and in 1943 he was made secretary to the [[List of governors-general of India|Viceroy and Governor-General of India]].<ref>Bakhshish Singh Nijjar, History of the United Panjab, Volume 3, Atlantic Publishers & Dist, 1 Jan 1996</ref> He served as the last [[List of governors of Punjab (British India)|Governor of the Punjab]] in [[British India]] from 8 April 1946 to August 1947.<ref>Pakistan Journal of History and Culture, Volume 10, National Institute of Historical and Cultural Research, 1989, p.77</ref><br />
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Due to boycotts engulfing the Punjab, on 2 March 1947 [[Malik Khizar Hayat Tiwana]] resigned as Prime Minister of the province and Jenkins, as Governor, assumed direct control of the Punjab until the day of partition, 14 August 1947.<ref>J. Henry Korson, ''Contemporary Problems of Pakistan'' (Brill Archive, 1974), p. 19.</ref><br />
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* {{Cite web |url= http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp79421/sir-evan-meredith-jenkins |title= Sir Evan Meredith Jenkins (1896-1985), Governor of the Punjab |work= National Portrait Gallery (UK) |accessdate= 2015-01-12 }}<br />
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