Robert Atherton (civil servant)

Robert Atherton CCS, JP (1801 – 1855) was a 19th-century British colonial official in British Ceylon (present day Sri Lanka) for more than 25 years. After a distinguished career in the Royal Navy, during which he was awarded the Burma Medal, Atherton held a series of administrative and judicial positions in the Northern Province of Ceylon from 1825 until 1835. He was appointed as Assistant Government Agent (A.G.A), Eastern Province of Ceylon, in 1835, 1839, and 1845, and of Northern Province in 1836. He also acted as District Judge, Batticaloa in 1841, and Justice of the Peace (JP) for the Eastern Province from 1848 until his death in 1855.

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