About Sir John Austen Hubback
Lived 1878 – 1968 (aged 89–90). Sir John Austen Hubback was a civil servant.
Sir John Austen Hubback, KCSI (27 February 1878 – 8 May 1968) was a British administrator in India who was the first Governor of Odisha.
Educated at Winchester College and King's College, Cambridge, Hubback entered the Indian Civil Service in 1902. A member of the Executive Council, Bihar and Orissa, from 1935 to 1936, he was Governor of Orissa between 1936 and 1941, when he retired. He was adviser to Secretary of State for India between 1942 and 1947.
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first governor of Odisha
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Sir John Austen Hubback was a civil servant.
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