James David Sifton

Sir James David Sifton
KCSI, KCIE
Governor of Bihar and Orissa
In office
7 April 1932 – 31 March 1936
Preceded bySir Hugh Lansdown Stephenson
Succeeded byPosition Abolished
Governor of Bihar
In office
1 April 1936 – 10 March 1937[1]
Preceded byPosition Created
Succeeded bySir Maurice Garnier Hallett
Personal details
Born17 April 1878 (1878-04-17)[2]
London
Died24 January 1952(1952-01-24) (aged 73)
Sussex
NationalityBritish
Spouse
Harriet May
​
(m. 1907)​
[2]
Alma materSt Paul's School, London, Magdalen College, Oxford[3]
OccupationAdministrator

Sir James David Sifton, KCSI, KCIE (17 April 1878 – 1952) was a British civil servant who was the Governor of Bihar and Orissa from 7 April 1932 to 31 March 1936 and then Governor of Bihar from 1 April 1936 to 10 March 1937. He was the first Governor of Bihar after division of province from Orissa. He was a member of the Imperial Civil Service appointed in 1902 and served in Bengal and later in Bihar and Orissa Province.

  1. ^ "Governor of Bihar". governor.bih.nic.in. Archived from the original on 4 February 2008. Retrieved 11 January 2018.
  2. ^ a b Magdalen College (University of Oxford) (1922). The Magdalen College Record. Gerstein – University of Toronto. London, J. Murray.
  3. ^ The India List and India Office List. Harrison. 1819. p. 613. james sifton.