Lionel Robert Ashburner CSI (1827 in Tasmania – 26 January 1907 in Marylebone, London) was the Acting governor of Bombay during the British Raj from 13 March 1880 to 28 April 1880.[1]

Biography

Lionel, son of William Page Ashburner and his wife Hester Maria, was a civil servant in India, where he became a director of the Great Indian Peninsular Railway. In the 1871 Birthday Honours, he was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Star of India.[2]

On 14 July 1873 he married Emily Caroline Haggard at Kirkee, Bombay.

References

  1. ↑ Infos at Google Books
  2. ↑ "No. 23739". The London Gazette. 20 May 1871. p. 2474.


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