Dictionary of Indian Biography/Bourdillon, James Dewar
BOURDILLON, JAMES DEWAR (1811–1883)
I.C.S: son of the Rev. T. Bourdillon: educated at Ramsgate and Haileybury: joined the Civil Service at Madras in 1828: was Secretary to the Board of Revenue and Secretary to Government in the Revenue and P.W.D.: advocated irrigation and the improvement of communications: was an authority on land revenue and the despatch of public business: retired in 1861: died May 21, 1883.