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| name = Joseph William Pritchard<br />
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| office1 = [[List of Chief Commissioners of Coorg|Chief Commissioner]] of [[Coorg Province]]<br />
| term_start1 = 1 July 1940<br />
| term_end1 = 26 April 1943<br />
| predecessor1 = [[John de la Hay Gordon]]<br />
| successor1 = [[Ketoli Chengappa]]<br />
| birth_date = 5 August 1903<br />
| birth_place = [[Shrewsbury]], England<br />
| death_date = 13 January 1963 (aged 59){{citation needed|date=April 2024}}<br />
| death_place = [[Chalfont St Giles]], Buckinghamshire{{citation needed|date=April 2024}}<br />
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'''Joseph William Pritchard''' (5 August 1903 – 13 January 1963{{citation needed|date=April 2024}}) was a British civil servant of the [[Indian Civil Service]] and an administrator who served as the Chief Commissioner of [[Coorg Province]] from 1940 to 1943.<ref name="indiaofficep305">{{cite book|title=Pritchard, Joseph William|work=India Office and Burma Office List|page=305|publisher=[[India Office]]|year=1945}}</ref><br />
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== Early life ==<br />
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Pritchard was educated at the [[Newport Grammar School]] and [[Trinity College, Cambridge]].<ref name="indiaofficep305" /> On graduation, Pritchard wrote the Indian civil service exams and qualified.<ref name="indiaofficep305" /><br />
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== Career ==<br />
Pritchard joined the [[Indian Civil Service]] on 25 October 1927<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=33326|page=7017|date=4 November 1927}}</ref> as Assistant Magistrate and Collector in the [[Madras Presidency]].<ref name="indiaofficep305" /> After serving in various appointments at different stations, in November 1939, Pritchard was appointed Commissioner of Coorg Province and posted to [[Mercara]].<ref name="indiaofficep305" /> As Commissioner, Pritchard was the highest British official in Coorg and reported to the Chief Commissioner of Coorg who was the British Resident to the [[Kingdom of Mysore]] and based in the city of [[Bangalore]].<br />
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On 1 July 1940, Pritchard was promoted to Chief Commissioner and was given independent charge of Coorg.<ref name="indiaofficep305" /> By this action, Coorg's administrative links with Mysore were severed. Pritchard served as the first independent Chief Commissioner of Coorg till 1943, when he was appointed District Collector of [[Tanjore District (Madras Presidency)|Tanjore district]] in 1943.<ref name="tanjore_collectors">{{cite web|title=List of District Collectors of Thanjavur district|url=http://www.thanjavur.tn.nic.in/collectors.html|publisher=Thanjavur district website|access-date=26 July 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151031012518/http://www.thanjavur.tn.nic.in/collectors.html|archive-date=31 October 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref> Pritchard served in Tanjore district from 16 February 1943 to 22 April 1944.<ref name="tanjore_collectors" /><br />
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