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| name = Sir Jean Louis Rieu, KCSI<br />
| birth_date = 23 November 1872<br />
| death_date = 4 November 1964<br />
| occupation = British administrator in India <br />
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'''Sir Jean Louis Rieu''', KCSI (23 November 1872 – 4 November 1964) was a British administrator in India. A member of the [[Indian Civil Service]], he held various appointments in the [[Bombay Presidency]], including service as [[List of commissioners and governors of Sind in British India|Commissioner in Sind]] from 1919 to 1925.<br />
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== Biography ==<br />
Louis Rieu was the son of [[Charles Pierre Henri Rieu]], a Swiss-born [[Oriental studies|orientalist]] who spent his career in Britain and the grandson of the Swiss soldier and politician [[Jean-Louis Rieu]]; his brother was the classicist [[E. V. Rieu]]. He was educated at [[University College School, London]], and [[Balliol College, Oxford]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |date=6 November 1964 |title=Sir Louis Rieu |pages=16 |work=[[The Times]]}}</ref><br />
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He entered the ICS in 1893 and was posted to the [[Bombay Presidency]]. He served successively as assistant collector, collector, and in other capacities in Sind until 1911, when he was appointed Secretary to the Government of Bombay in the General Department. In 1917, he was appointed Collector of Karachi, and in 1918 he became Secretary to the Government of Bombay in the Revenue and Financial Departments. He was Commissioner in Sind from 1915 to 1925, and served on the Executive Council of the Governor of Bombay from 1926 until his retirement in 1929 as member responsible for revenue, in succession to [[Maurice Hayward|Sir Maurice Hayward]].<ref>{{Cite news |date=28 December 1925 |title=Telegrams in Brief |pages=11 |work=[[The Times]]}}</ref> He was replaced by [[Walter Frank Hudson]].<ref>{{Cite news |date=11 July 1929 |title=Telegrams in Brief |pages=15 |work=[[The Times]]}}</ref><br />
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Rieu was appointed CSI in 1920 and promoted to KCSI in 1929.<ref name=":0" /><br />
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== Family ==<br />
Rieu was married firstly to Ida Augusta Edwards (died 1921), daughter of John Edwards, JP, of Knockrobin, County Wicklow; they had a daughter. He married secondly Eileen Dorothy Kirkpatrick, daughter of Cyril Kirkpatrick, in 1930. Kirkpatrick had been married to Charles William Aldis Turner, ICS, who obtained a divorce decree against his wife on grounds of adultery earlier that year, citing Rieu as co-respondent.<ref>{{Cite news |date=11 February 1930 |title=Decree Nisi For Indian Civil Servant |pages=5 |work=[[The Times]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=11 February 1930 |title=Knight Cited As Co-respondent |pages=10 |work=[[Evening Telegraph (Dundee)|The Evening Telegraph]]}}</ref><br />
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[[Category:1872 births]]<br />
[[Category:1964 deaths]]<br />
[[Category:British people of Swiss descent]]<br />
[[Category:British people of Dutch descent]]<br />
[[Category:Knights Commander of the Order of the Star of India]]<br />
[[Category:Indian Civil Service (British India) officers]]<br />
[[Category:People educated at University College School]]<br />
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