Sydney Olivier (1859-1943; ODNB), civil servant and colonial administrator, including captain-general and (a popular) governor-in-chief of Jamaica, 1907-1913; sensitive to racial and ethnic issues in the empire; founding member of the Fabian Society in 1885; Baron Oliver of Ramsden, 1924; secretary of state for India, 1924. See also Volume 72.

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• 26 Feb 1924