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John Russell Colvin

John Russell Colvin (29 May 1807 – 9 September 1857) was a British administrator of the East India Company, and Lieutenant-Governor of the North-Western Provinces from 1853 until his death from cholera during the Indian Rebellion of 1857.

This article is about the lieutenant-governor of the North-West Provinces of India. For the water engineer in northern India, see John Colvin (engineer).

John Russell Colvin

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(1807-05-29)29 May 1807
Calcutta, Bengal Presidency

9 September 1857(1857-09-09) (aged 50)
Agra, North-Western Provinces

East India Company College

; Penner, Peter (reviewer) (2004). "Colvin, John Russell (1807–1857)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/6013. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

Boase, G.C.

Moggridge, Hal (2006). "Colvin, Brenda (1897–1981)". (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/46400. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

Yeoman (18 April 1928), , East Anglian Daily Times, archived from the original on 9 May 2003

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Attribution:

(1895). John Russell Colvin: The Last Lieutenant-Governor of the North-West Under the Company. Rulers of India series. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Colvin, Sir Auckland

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