{{short description|British Indian Army officer and administrator}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2015}} {{Use British English|date=November 2015}} {{Infobox person | name = Sir Rupert Hay | image = | caption = | birth_date = {{birth date|1893|12|16|df=y}} | birth_place = | death_date = {{death date and age|1962|4|3|1893|12|16|df=y}} | death_place = | other_names = | known_for = | occupation = | relatives = | spouse = | website = | footnotes = }} '''Sir William Rupert Hay''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|KCMG|KCIE|CSI}} (16 December 1893 – 3 April 1962) was a British Indian Army officer and administrator in British India. He served as Chief Commissioner of Balochistan during the colonial era.
==Career== Hay was educated at Bradfield and University College, Oxford. He was commissioned in the Dorsetshire Regiment in 1914<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=28922 |date=2 October 1914 |page=7819}}</ref> and served during World War I in Mesopotamia. He transferred to the Indian Army and was attached to the 24th Punjabis, being appointed Quarter-Master 30 October 1916. <ref>Indian Army List July 1918</ref> He was promoted to Lieutenant in 1918.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=31131 |date=17 January 1919 |page=912}}</ref> He was seconded to the Foreign and Political Department in May 1920 and was confirmed in his appointment in May 1924.<ref>''History of services of officers holding gazetted appointments under the Foreign and Political Department, corrected up to 1st July 1935''</ref> He was Political Agent in South Waziristan 1924–28, Assistant Commissioner in Mardan 1928–31, and Political Agent in Malakand 1931–33. He was Resident in Waziristan 1940–41, Resident in the Persian Gulf 1941–42, Revenue and Judicial Commissioner in Balochistan 1942–43 and Agent to the Governor-General, Resident and Chief Commissioner in Balochistan 1943–46.<ref>[http://rulers.org/indprov.html Rulers of Provinces of British India]</ref> He was again Political Resident in the Persian Gulf from 1946 to 1953 when he retired from the service and returned to England.{{fact|date=November 2024}}
==Publications== *[https://archive.org/details/twoyearsinkurdis00hayw ''Two Years in Kurdistan : Experiences of a Political Officer, 1918-1920''], Sidgwick & Jackson, London, 1921 *[http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.$b572591 ''The Persian Gulf States''], Middle East Institute, Washington D.C., 1959. {{ISBN|0404189660}}
==References== *[http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U55772 HAY, Lt-Col Sir (William) Rupert], ''Who Was Who'', A & C Black, 1920–2015 (online edition, Oxford University Press, 2014) *[http://find.galegroup.com/ttda/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=TTDA&tabID=T003&docPage=article&searchType=BasicSearchForm&docId=CS253190788&type=multipage&contentSet=LTO&version=1.0 Obituary – Sir Rupert Hay – The Indian Political Service], ''The Times'', London, 4 April 1962, page 15 {{reflist}}
{{s-start}} {{s-gov}} {{succession box |title=Chief Commissioner of Balochistan|| years=1943–1946| before=Sir Aubrey Metcalfe| after=Henry Poulton}} {{end}}
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