A Kaisar-i-Hind pair awarded to Superintendent G. Bowen, Calcutta Police

Kaisar-I-Hind, E.VII.R., 2nd class, silver, the edge contemporarily engraved ‘Griffith Bowen. Calcutta 1909’, with integral top riband bar; Delhi Durbar 1911, silver (Griffith Bowen Supt. of Police) contemporarily engraved naming, minor edge bruise to latter, otherwise extremely fine (2) £400-£500

Griffith Bowen was born on 20 September 1859 and joined the Calcutta police on 14 June 1886. He was appointed Superintendent of Police on 12 April 1904, and was in charge of the High Court from 24 July 1910.