Background
TREVOR, Arthur Charles was born on April 6, 1841 in Jellalabad, Afghanistan. 5th son of late Captain R. S. Trevor, 3rd Bengal Cavalry (killed at Cabul, December 1841).
TREVOR, Arthur Charles was born on April 6, 1841 in Jellalabad, Afghanistan. 5th son of late Captain R. S. Trevor, 3rd Bengal Cavalry (killed at Cabul, December 1841).
Studied at St. John’s Foundation School and Trinity and Lincoln Colls. Oxford. Scholar of Lincoln.
Appointed after examination of 1800. Arrived, 1801; served in Bombay as Assistant Collector and Magistrate, and Deputy Commissioner of Customs and Opium. Collector of Customs, Bombay, 1879.
Senior Collector, 1884. Collector of Salt Revenue, 1885. Commissioner of Customs, Salt, Opium, and Abkari, and Reporter-General of External Commerce, 1888.
Also British Delegate for the Portuguese Treaty. Commissioner in Sind, 1890. Member of Bombay Council, 1892.
Companion of the Order of the Star of India, 1894. Temporary member of Governor - General’s Council in charge Railways and Public Works, April to October 1895. Confirmed April 1896-1901. Indian Civil Service (Bombay).
Spouse 1867, Florence Mary, 2nddaughter of Colonel C. J. Prescott, Bombay Staff Corps.