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*[http://www.orwell.ru/bio/english/al_crick '''Richard Walmesley Blair'''], who joined the Service 1875, was in the Opium Department, and was the father of the author George Orwell. www.orwell.ru
*[http://www.oxforddnb.com/templates/article.jsp?articleid=35292&back= '''Sir Michael Francis O'Dwyer''']. Joining the service in India in 1885 he was first posted to Shahpur in the Punjab.In December 1912, he was appointed to be lieutenant-governor of the Punjab, a post which he held until May 1919. Like many administrators O'Dwyer believed that ‘extremist’ nationalist politics and terrorism were inter-connected. His decision to implement martial law in some parts of the Punjab was controversial. oxforddnb.com
**His book'' India as I knew it, 1885–1925''. published in 1925, is available toread online on the [[Online books#Digital Library of India| Digital Library of India]] website.
*'''[http://www.dnw.co.uk/medals/auctionarchive/searchcataloguearchive/itemdetail.lasso?itemid=68340 Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Patrick Robert Cadell]'''. (dnw.co.uk) He entered the ICS in 1891 in the Bombay Presidency He was Commissioner at Sind, 1925; retiring from the Indian Civil Service in 1926. He was President of the Council, Junagadh State, 1932-35; and similarly for Sangli State, 1937 and Rajkot State, 1938. [http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portraitLarge/mw121802/Sir-Patrick-Robert-Cadell Photographic Portrait, National Portrait Gallery]
