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Name
  
Lionel Ashburner

Died
  
1907

Resigned
  
April 28, 1880


Lionel Robert Ashburner (1827 in Tasmania – 1907 in Marylebone, London) was the Acting governor of Bombay during the British Raj from 13 March 1880 to 28 April 1880.

Biography

Lionel, son of William Page Ashburner and his wife Hester Maria, was a civil servant in India, where he became a Director of the Great Indian Peninsular Railway. In the 1871 Birthday Honours, he was a appointed a Companion of the Order of the Star of India.

On the 14 July 1873 he married Emily Caroline Haggard at Kirkee, Bombay.

References

Lionel Robert Ashburner Wikipedia