answers: Sir William Stevenson Meyer
context: William Stevenson Meyer Sir William Stevenson Meyer (13 February 1860 - 19 October 1922) was an Indian Civil Service officer. From 1920 until his death two years later, he served as the first High Commissioner for India. Meyer was born to a Presbyterian minister, Theodore Jonah Meyer, and his wife Jane Ann. His younger sister was the mathematician Margaret Meyer. Meyer entered the Indian Civil Service in 1881 and was assigned to the Madras Presidency as an assistant secretary, where he rose to become Chief Secretary of the Board of Revenue in 1890. In 1895, he entered the service of </s> on behalf of India. He retired as High Commissioner in April 1947, shortly before Indian independence, and died in Bangalore, aged 88. S. E. Runganadhan Dewan Bahadur Sir Samuel Ebenezer Runganadhan (also Ranganathan) (30 December 1877 - 7 November 1966) was an Indian educationist who served successively as Vice-Chancellor of Annamalai University and Madras University and as the last High Commissioner for India from 1943 to 1947. Runganadhan was born to Reverend C. Runganadhan of the London Missionary Society. In 1908, he entered the Madras Provincial Educational Service, and was promoted to the Indian Educational Service in 1921, which had </s> Bhupendra Nath Mitra Sir Bhupendra Nath Mitra KCSI, KCIE, CBE (Bengali: ভূপেন্দ্র নাথ মিত্র) (October 1875 - 25 February 1937) was an Indian government official and diplomat who served as the third Indian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom from 1931 to 1936. Mitra was born in Bengal to Ashutosh Mitra. He received his early education at the Metropolitan Institution and the Hare School. Taking an MA from Presidency College, then under the University of Calcutta, in 1895, he entered government service the following year. He married and had a son and two daughters. In 1910, Mitra was appointed Assistant
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