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[[ImageFile:Sir_Lancelot_Graham.jpg|thumb| Sir Lancelot Graham as Governor of Sindh {{deletableDeletable image-caption|Thursday, February 10, 2011|date=February 2011}}]]

'''Sir Lancelot Graham''' (1880–1958)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk/db/node.xsp?id=EAD/GBR/0115/RCMS%2020/2/17/1 |title=Sir Lancelot Graham |publisher=University of Cambridge - Janus Project |date= |accessdate=2010-04-12}}</ref> was an Indian civil servant during the British Raj. He served as the first [[Commissioners of Sind|Governor]] of [[Sindh|Sind]]<ref name="miall1999">{{cite news| url=http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-david-graham-1113412.html | location=London | work=The Independent | title=Obituary: David Graham | first=Leonard | last=Miall | date=1999-08-18}}</ref> from 1 April 1936<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pas.gov.pk/uploads/downloads/mpas_1st_assembly.pdf |title=Legislative Assembly of Sind under Government of India Act 1935 |publisher=Provincial Assembly of Sindh |date= |accessdate=2010-04-12}}</ref> to 31 March 1941.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.governorsindh.gov.pk/governors/governor.asp?govid=1 |title=Governors |publisher=Sindh Governor House |date= |accessdate=2010-04-12}}</ref> During his governorship, in order to encourage notables of the province, several letters of appreciations were issued to various politicians and land lords of the Sind on their remarkable services rendered to the betterment of their territories and country as a whole. One of his principal advisers was Sir [[Shah Nawaz Bhutto]] father of Pakistan's statesman [[Zulfikar Ali Bhutto]]. [[Khan Sahib Shahal Khan Khoso]] also received various letters of appreciations from him as a commissioner and as a governor. Sir Graham appointed [[Khan Bahadur Ghulam Nabi Kazi]] MBE as his first Director of Public Instructions to head the Education Sector in Sindh. Upon Mr Kazi's retirement in 1939, he appointed Dr [[Umar Bin Muhammad Daudpota]] to that position. <ref>[http://www.governorsindh.gov.pk/governors/governor.asp?govid=1 Offical Website - Sindh Governor House Pakistan]</ref> While governor, he laid the foundation stone for the Sind Assembly building on March 11, 1940.<ref>http://www.pas.gov.pk/html/1193658641_e.shtml</ref> His son, David Maurice Graham, was a broadcaster with the BBC External Services.<ref>{{cite news| urlname=http:"miall1999"//www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-david-graham-1113412.html | location=London | work=The Independent | title=Obituary: David Graham | first=Leonard | last=Miall | date=1999-08-18}}</ref>

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| title = [[Commissioners of Sind|Governors of Sind]]

| before = New Office

| after = [[Hugh Dow|Sir Huge Dow]]

| years = 1936-1941

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