Sir Cecil Kisch

1884 - 1961  (77 years)

• Name	Cecil Kisch
  Prefix	Sir
  Born	1884
  Gender	Male
  Biography	SIR CECIL KISCH (1884–1961), joined the Indian civil service in 1909 and in 1917 went to India with Edwin *Montagu, the secretary of state for India, as his private secretary. In 1921 he became secretary of the Indian finance department and promoted numerous monetary reforms including the establishment of the Reserve Bank of India. Kisch represented India at the monetary conference at Geneva in 1933 and later served on the supervisory finance committee of the League of Nations. From 1933 to 1942 he was assistant under-secretary of state for India and from 1942 to 1943 deputy under-secretary. A man of wideranging interests, Kisch translated Russian poetry into English, published a standard work (with W.W.A. Elkin) on central banking, Central Banks – a Study of the Constitution of Banks of Issue (1928, 19324), and wrote The Portuguese Bank Note Case (1932), the story of a famous fraud of the 1920s. He was knighted in 1932.  [1]
  Immigration	1917	India
  Died	1961
  Person ID	I9450	Blank Family
  Last Modified	31 May 2009

  
  

  Father	Hermann Michael Kisch,   b. 1850,   d. 1942, England  (Age 92 years)
  Mother	UNNAMED,   b. Yes - date unknown,   d. Yes - date unknown
  Family ID	F6686	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map		Immigration - 1917 - India  = Link to Google Earth
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• Histories

  Kisch Family Bio

  
  

• Sources

  [S14] Encyclopedia Judaica.