William Alexander Cosgrave
British administrator in India
About William Alexander Cosgrave
Lived 1879 – 1952 (aged 72–73).
Sir William Alexander Cosgrave, CIE (1879 – 11 September 1952) was a British administrator in India. A member of the Indian Civil Service, he was Chief Commissioner of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands from 1935 until 1938.
Biography The son of H. A. Cosgrave, JP, of County Dublin, William Cosgrave was educated at Shrewsbury School and Trinity College, Dublin, where he was a classical scholar. He passed into the Indian Civil Service in 1903 and was posted to the Bengal.
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Who was William Alexander Cosgrave?
British administrator in India
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William Alexander Cosgrave was born in 1879.
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William Alexander Cosgrave died in 1952.
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