Background
Saiyid Hamid was born in Muslim family of Syed Mehdi Hasan and Sitarah Shahjahan Begum in Faizabad on 28 March 1920.
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Saiyid Hamid was born in Muslim family of Syed Mehdi Hasan and Sitarah Shahjahan Begum in Faizabad on 28 March 1920.
In 1931, Syed Hamid completed 6th grade from Moradabad Inter College and moved to Rampur where his father joined a new job in Estate of Rampur. Just after one year they moved back to Moradabad and completed his Intermediate (12th grade) from Moradabad Inter College in 1937.
The family was originally from Moradabad. Syed Mahdi Hasan was interested in history, literature and Islamic education. He completed his Bachelor and Master of Arts from Aligarh Muslim University in English and enrolled for another Master of Arts in Persian.
Before he could complete his second Master of Arts, Hamid was selected for Uttar Pradesh’ Provincial Civil Services in 1943.
He could finally complete his Master of Arts in Persian in 1947, the year India got Independence. He served in the Proceedings of the Chemical Society till he joined the Indian Administrative Services (Institute for Advanced Study ) in 1949.
Hamid served at various posts in the bureaucratic hierarchy both in Uttar Pradesh and in Delhi. He retired in 1980 and was appointed the Vice Chancellor of his alma mater (AMU) in June, 1980 where he served his full five years term.
In 1999, Hamid served as the Chancellor of the Delhi’s Hamdard University.
He died on 29 December 2014 at New Delhi. In 2015 The Senior Secondary Schools Boys of Aligarh Muslim University was renamed as Saiyid Hamid Senior Secondary School Boys in his honour. Hamid’s most noticeable contribution is to the field of education.
He was involved in some advisory capacity with dozens of educational institutions across the country.
He was also instrumental in establishing and nurturing the Jamia Hamdard University, besides looking after the Hamdard Education Society that runs Hamdard Public School and Hamdard Study Circle for Civil Services examinations.
He was a member of Indian Administrative Service and also served as the Vice Chancellor of Aligarh Muslim University. He also served as a member of several committees, including the management committee of the Darul Musannefin Shibli Academy, Azamgarh.