Edward Vere Levinge

Sir Edward Vere Levinge (1867–1954) was an administrator in the Indian Civil Service who rose to serve as acting Lieutenant-Governor of the British Raj Province known as Bihar and Orissa. He held that office for the months of April–July 1918, being an interregnum in the office of Edward Albert Gait. Early life Edward Vere Levinge was born on 24 May 1867 at Cuttack in British India He was the second son of Harry Corbyn Levinge and his wife, Ellen. His father had worked as secretary to the government of Bengal's Public Works Department and was a son of the sixth Levinge baronet. Levinge was educated at Cheltenham College and then matriculated at Balliol College, Oxford on 24 October 1885.