Hubert Arthur Sams was born on 3 May 1875, son of J. H. Sams, and was educated at St Paul's School and at Peterhouse, where he was admitted on a classical scholarship in 1894, graduating B.A. in 1897. According to 'Who Was Who': he 'entered ICS, 1899; Punjab Commission, 1899; Assistant Commissioner, 1899-1907; officiating Deputy Commissioner, 1903-07; Postmaster-General Bengal and Assam, 1907-08; Bengal, 1908-11; Burma, 1911-13; Bombay, 1913-14; Central Circle, 1914-17; Director of Postal Services MEF Mesopotamia, 1917-19, Lt-Col RE (CIE, despatches thrice); Postmaster-General, Bombay, 1920-22; Deputy Director-General Posts and Telegraphs, 1922-27; Officiating D-G, 1922-23, 1924, 1926; Director-General, 1927-31; Member, Indian Legislative Assembly, 1923-31; Bursar and Fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge, 1932-40, Emeritus Fellow, 1940; Bursar, Steward and Fellow of Selwyn Coll., Cambridge, 1941-44; Cambridge Borough Council, 1932-40, 1942-44; President, Cambridge YMCA, 1932-40; A Governor of St Paul’s School and St Paul’s Girls’ School, 1938-54.' He became a Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire (CIE) in 1919 and was knighted in 1931. ‘SAMS, Sir Hubert Arthur’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920-2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; online edn, April 2014 [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U242626, accessed 14 Dec 2015] Editor of 'The Post Office of India in the Great War' (Bombay, Times Press, 1922) and author of 'Pauline and old Pauline' (privately printed at Cambridge University Press, 1933). Died 9 June 1957. See also references to him the 'The Sex' for Lent and Easter Terms 1902.