Name Evan Jenkins Died 1985 | Education Eton College | |
Sir Evan Meredith Jenkins GCIE KCSI (2 February 1896 – 1985) was a British colonial administrator and the last governor of the Punjab in the British Empire.
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He was a son of Sir John Lewis Jenkins and his wife Florence Mildred, second daughter of Sir Arthur Trevor, and a brother of David Jenkins, Baron Jenkins. He was educated at Rugby School and Balliol College, Oxford.
Early Life
He joined the Indian Civil Service in 1920 and held various posts in the Punjab commission and Central Secretariat. In 1937 he was appointed Chief Commissioner of Delhi and in 1943 he was made secretary to the Viceroy and Governor-General of India.
Governor of the Punjab Province
Jenkins served as the last British governor of the Punjab from April 1946 to August 1947. Jenkins did not favor the partition of the Punjab and was opposed to the idea of a hasty withdrawal of British troops from India. He argued with Mountbatten that an early withdrawal of British troops will result in thousands of deaths due to sectarian violence in British india.