Lionel Robert (Lionel) Ashburner (1827–1907)

Tasmanian-born civil magistrate. Appointed to the Bombay Civil Service, 1848. Collector and magistrate in Kandesh, India, 1861–72. Revenue and police commissioner, Bombay, Northern Division, 1872–7. Member of Council, 1877. Acting governor briefly in 1880. Retired, 1883.

Sources

Australia, birth index 1788–1922 (Ancestry.com, accessed 9 February 2016)

England & Wales, national probate calendar (index of wills and administrations), 1858–1966 (Ancestry.com, accessed 9 February 2016)

India list 1905, p. 429