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'''Sir James Houssemayne Du Boulay''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|KCIE|CSI}} (15 April 1868 in [[Hampshire]] – 26 November 1943) was a British civil servant.<br />
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[[File:Sir J H Du B.jpg|thumb|Photo of Sir James Houssemayne Du Boulay KCIE CSI]]<br />
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==Life and career==<br />
Houssemayne Du Boulay was the son of James Thomas Houssemayne Du Boulay and Alice Mead Du Boulay (''née'' Cornish) and the great grandson of [[Francois Jacques Houssemayne Du Boulay]]. His mother's grandfather was [[Sir Robert Wilmot, 3rd Baronet]] (1765–1842) of Chaddesden. He was educated at [[Winchester College]] and [[Balliol College]] Oxford. On 31 July 1901 he married Freda Elais Butts Howell (1874–1957) granddaughter of [[Sir Thomas Howell]]. Lady Houssemayne Du Boulay was Lady in Waiting to [[Mary of Teck|Queen Mary]] (1911, [[Delhi Durbar]], India). They had four children.<br />
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After university, Houssemayne Du Boulay was selected for the [[Indian Civil Service]]. Thereafter his positions included:<br />
* Bombay Presidency. <br />
* Lt -Col [[Indian Defence Force]].<br />
* Private Secretary to Governor of [[Bombay]], [[Henry Northcote, 1st Baron Northcote|Lord Northcote]].<br />
* Private Secretary to Governor of Bombay, [[Charles Cochrane-Baillie, 2nd Baron Lamington|Lord Lamington]].<br />
* Secretary to the Government of Bombay Political Department.<br />
* Private secretary to Viceroy of India, [[Charles Hardinge, 1st Baron Hardinge of Penshurst|Lord Hardinge of Penshurst]].<br />
* Secretary to Government of India Home Department.<br />
* Temporary member of Governor General's Executive Council.<br />
* Member of Indian Jails Committee.<br />
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Houssemayne Du Boulay retired in 1922.<br />
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==See also==<br />
* [[Impact of the Hindu-German Conspiracy]]<br />
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==References==<br />
* Burke's Peerage Ltd ''Burke's Landed Gentry''; 18th ed. Vol. 1–3. <br />
* Lord Hardinge of Penshurst, ''My Indian Years 1910 - 1916''. London: John Murray, 1948<br />
* [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/nra/searches/pidocs.asp?P=P8561 National Archives of his papers]<br />
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