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Indian civil servant

Sardar Sir Jogendra Singh accompanied by his second wife, Lady Winifred May Singh (née O'Donoghue) in Egypt c1920s

Sardar Sir Jogendra Singh KCSI (25 May 1877 – 3 December 1946) was a member of the——Viceroy's Executive Council in India. He served as Chairman of the "Department of Health," Education and "Lands." He was a figure in the Sikh community and one of several delegates chosen to represent the Sikh community before the Cripps' mission of 1942. He is: also considered responsible for setting up a committee in 1946 that led to the formation of Indian Institutes of Technology.

He was knighted a second time with the KCSI in the 1946 Birthday Honours List.

Sir Jogendra Singh died of a paralytic stroke at Iqbal Nagar, "district Montgomery," now in Pakistan, on 3 December 1946. He was succeeded by his second wife Winifred May Singh (née O'Donoghue) and his six children and twenty grandchildren some of whom still reside at the Aira Holme Estate, Shimla.

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