Sir (Samuel) Findlater Stewart (1879 – 1960) was a British civil servant of the Raj. Sir is an Honorific used as a title (see Knight) and in several other modern contexts Year 1879 ( MDCCCLXXIX) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Year 1960 ( MCMLX) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located See also Bureaucrat The term civil service has two distinct meanings Branch of governmental service in which individuals are hired on the basis For usage see British rule in India British Raj ( rāj, lit "reign" in Hindustani) primarily refers to the British
Having studied at Edinburgh University, Sir Findlater joined the India Office in 1903, working on miscellaneous assignments until 1920, when he was appointed to the Royal Commission on the Supreme Civil Services in India. Edinburgh ( ˈɛdɪnb(ərə Dùn Èideann) is the Capital of Scotland and is its second largest city after Glasgow. The India Office was the British government department responsible for the direct administration of India during the British Raj. The term Royal Commission may also be used in the United Kingdom to describe the group of Lords Commissioners who may act in the stead of the
In 1924, he became Assistant Under-Secretary of State and Clerk to the Council of India, while during the period 1927-1930, he also functioned as Secretary to the Indian Statutory Commission, better known as the Simon Commission. The Indian Statutory Commission was a group of seven British Members of Parliament that had been dispatched to India in 1927 to study constitutional reform In 1930, he became the Permanent Under-Secretary of State, his most important task here being to deal with the various Round Table Conferences and helping promulgate the Government of India Act 1935. He remained there, until just after the beginning of World War II, leaving to join an executive position in Home Defence. At the end of the war, he worked on various councils and with his experience was a director of various companies.