Dow Medical College 1945

Sir Hugh Dow 

(Posted by Amin H. Karim MD Dow 1977, November 15 2013) 

Sir Hugh Dow,  (8 May 1886 – 20 November 1978) was an Indian civil servant during the British Raj.

Dow entered the Indian Civil Service in 1909 and served in various senior administrative and advisory capacities in pre-war India. From 1939 to 1941 he was Director-General of Supply and President of the War Supply Board, India, and from 1941 to 1946 Governor of Sind. He became Governor of Bihar in 1946. He was appointed a CIE in 1932, a CSI in 1937, knighted with the KCSI in 1940 and appointed a GCIE in 1947.

After leaving India he was Consul-General, Jerusalem, and then Chairman of the Royal Commission on East Africa.^[4]

Dow served as the second Governor of Sindh from 1 April 1941 to 14 January 1946 succeeding Sir Lancelot Graham.^[5] He laid the foundation stone of Dow Medical College, now a constituent college of the Dow University of Health Sciences, Karachi in December 1945^[6]

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