Dictionary of Indian Biography/Bourdillon, Sir James Austin
BOURDILLON, SIR JAMES AUSTIN (1848–)
I.C.S.: born at Madras, March, 1848: son of J. D. Bourdillon (q.v.): educated at Marlborough: Captain of the Cricket XI: went out to India, 1870: Superintendent of the Census of Bengal, 1880–3: acting Secretary to the Bengal Government, Financial Department, 1893–5: Commissioner of Patna, in the famine, 1897: C.S.I., 1898: Chief Secretary to the Government of Bengal, 1900: Member of the Famine Commission in India, 1901: Member of the Board of Revenue, 1902: for some years Member of the Bengal Legislative Council: acted as Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal, Nov. 1902–Nov. 1903: Resident in Mysore, 1903: K.C.S.I., Jan. 1904: V.D., 1896, for long service as a volunteer in the Calcutta Light Horse and Bihar Light Horse.