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Hastings, Warren, 1732-1818

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Hastings was the first governor general of British India. He began in 1750 as a clerk at the East India Company. In 1761, he was appointed to the Calcutta Council, and in 1769, was made a member of the Madras Council. In 1771, he became governor of Bengal, and in 1774, governor general of India. In 1784, he resigned and returned to England, where he was charged with high crimes and misdemenears. He was impeached in 1787 but, after a long trial, was acquitted in 1795. He was made a privy councilo...

Napoleon III, Emperor of the French, 1808-1873

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Napoleon III (born Charles-Louis Napoléon Bonaparte, 20 April 1808, Paris, France – died 9 January 1873, Chislehurst, Kent, England), the nephew of Napoleon I and cousin of Napoleon II, was the first president of France, from 1848 to 1852, and the last French monarch, from 1852 to 1870. First elected president of the French Second Republic in 1848, he seized power in 1851, when he could not constitutionally be re-elected, and became the emperor of the French. He founded the Second French Empire ...

Rammohun Roy, Raja, 1772-1833

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Edward VII, King of Great Britain, 1841-1910

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Edward VII (born Albert Edward, 9 November 1841, London, United Kingdom,-d. 6 May 1910, London, United Kingdom) was the the eldest son and second child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. He hoped to pursue a career in the British Army, but his mother vetoed an active military career. He married Alexandra of Denmark in 1863. During Queen Victoria's widowhood, Edward pioneered the idea of royal public appearances as they are understood today; he was regarded worldwide as an arbiter of men's fash...

Halifax, Charles Wood, Viscount, 1800-1885

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1826 Member of Parliament for Great Grimsby; 1831 Member of Parliament for Wareham; 1832-1865 Member of Parliament for Halifax; 1832 Joint Secretary to the Treasury; 1835 Secretary to the Admiralty; 1846-1852 Chancellor of the Exchequer; 1852-1855 President of the Board of Control; 1855-1858 First Lord of the Admiralty; 1856 GCB; 1859-1866 Secretary of State for India; 1865 Member of Parliament for Ripon; 1870-1874 Lord Privy Seal. Epithet: statesman Title: 1...

Cavendish, Spencer Compton, 1833-1908, Marquess of Hartington, 8th Duke of Devonshire, statesman

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1857-1868 Member of Parliament for North Lancashire; 1863-1866 Under-Secretary, War Office; 1868-1870 Postmaster-General; 1870-1874 Chief Secretary for Ireland; 1880-1882 Secretary of State for India; 1882-1885 Secretary of State for War. Epithet: statesman Title: Marquess of Hartington, 8th Duke of Devonshire British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000621.0x00029c ...

Rawdon-Hastings, Francis, formerly Rawdon 2nd Earl of Moira, 1st Marquess of Hastings

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Epithet: formerly Rawdon 2nd Earl of Moira, 1st Marquess of Hastings British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000688.0x00029f ...

Bengal, Nawabs of

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Title: Nawabs of British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001394.0x0001a0 ...

Napier, Francis

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Title: 9th Baron Napier British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001297.0x0001b1 Title: 7th Baron Napier of Merchistoun British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001123.0x00025d Epithet: 1st Baron Ettrick Title: 10th Baron Napier of Merchiston British Library Archives and Manuscripts...

Canning, Charles John, 1812-1862

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First Vice-Roy of India. From the description of Autograph letter signed : [London], to Sir Henry Yule, 1859 Apr. 24. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270133453 Governor General of India during the Mutiny. From the description of Letters, 1857 April 4 and 20. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). WorldCat record id: 62684687 1836-1837 MP for Warwick; 1837 entered House of Lords as Viscount Canning of Kilbrahan; 1841-1845 under-secretary of s...

Wingfield, Charles John, Sir, Subject of Mss Eur G38

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Epithet: Subject of Mss Eur G38 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001569.0x00013c ...

Cavenagh, Orfeur, Sir, 1820-1891, Knight, colonial administrator

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1840s served at Gwalior and Sutlej; 1850 attached to the Nepal mission in London; 1854-?1858 town major of Calcutta; 1859-1867 governor of the Straits Settlements; 1874 lieutenant-general; 1877 general; 1881 KCSI Epithet: colonial administrator Title: Knight British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001394.0x0003bb ...

Russell, Arthur Oliver Villiers, 1869-1935, 2nd Baron Ampthill

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1897 private-secretary, Colonial Office; 1900-1904 Govenor of Madras; 1904 acting Viceroy of India; 1908-1935 pro-grand master of English freemasonry; Commander, 1914-1917 13th battalion of the Leicestershire regiment, 3rd and 8th battalions of the Bedfordshire regiment; 1917-1918 Indian Labour Corps advisor; 1919 brevet-colonel Title: 2nd Baron Ampthill British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000976.0x...

Eugénie, 1826-1920, consort of Napoleon III

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1853 married Napoleon III; 1853-1870 Empress of France; 1870 fled to Britain. Epithet: consort of Napoleon III British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001394.0x000217 ...

Vizianagram, Maharaja of

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Title: Maharaja of British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001512.0x0003e3 ...

Gathorne-Hardy, Gathorne, active 1849-1907, 1st Earl of Cranbrook

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Title: 1st Earl of Cranbrook British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001244.0x00001c ...

Phayre, Robert, Sir, 1820-1897, Knight, army officer in India

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1839 commissioned ensign in the East India Company (25th Bombay native infantry); 1839-1842 served in First Anglo-Afghan War; 1840 lieutenant; 1843 Sind War; 1848 captain; 1851-1856 worked on mountain roads in southern Maratha; 1856-1857 organized expeditionary force to Persia; 1857-1868 quartermaster-general to the Bombay army; 1857 brevet-major; 1861 major; 1863 brevet lieutenant-colonel; 1867-1868 quartermaster-general of the Abyssinia expedition; 1868 colonel; ? 1868 CB, aide-de...

Bowring, Lewin B. (Lewin Bentham), 1824-1910

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1843-1870 Bengal Civil Service; 1847 Assistant Resident, Lahore; 1858-1862 Private Secretary to Earl Canning; 1862-1870 Chief Commissioner of Mysore and Coorg. Epithet: civil servant in India British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000471.0x00000a ...

Yule, George Udny, Sir, 1813-1886, Knight, Indian administrator

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1861-1863 acting chief commissioner of Oudh; 1860s Resident at Hyderabad; 1867-1869 member of the governor-general's council; 1860 CB; 1866 KCSI Epithet: Indian administrator Title: Knight British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001569.0x0001ae ...

Prendergast, Harry North Dalrymple, Sir, General

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Epithet: General British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001440.0x000242 ...

Bruce, James, 1811-1863, 8th Earl of Elgin and 12th Earl of Kincardine, Viceroy of India

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1841-1842 Member of Parliament for Southampton; 1842-1846 Govenor of Jamaica; 1846-1854 Govenor-in-chief of British North America; 1857-1859 and 1860-1861 high commissioner to China and plenipotentiary in Japan; 1858 GCB; 1859-1860 Postmaster general; 1859-1862 lord rector of the University of Glasgow; 1861-1863 Viceroy of India Epithet: Viceroy of India Title: 8th Earl of Elgin and 12th Earl of Kincardine British Library Archives and Manuscripts ...

Iddesleigh, Stafford Henry Northcote, earl of, 1818-1887

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British politician who served successively as a private secretary to William Gladstone, a Member of Parliament,a finance advisor to Benjamin Disraeli, secretary of state to India, chairman of the Hudson's Bay Company, Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Foreign Secretary. He was created Earl of Iddesleigh in 1885. From the description of Stafford Henry Northcote, Earl of Iddesleigh papers, 1831-1887. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 64060425 British politician ...

Lytton, Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Earl of, 1831-1891

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Lucile was first published in 1860. From the description of Lucile : manuscript, [not before 1860] (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612820220 Lytton, the son of novelist and dramatist Edward Bulwer Lytton (1803-1873), was a British statesman and poet who published as Owen Meredith. From the description of Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton letter to Dear Madam, 1886. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 70254731 From the descr...

Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, Gilbert John, Viscount Melgund, 4th Earl of Minto

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Epithet: Viscount Melgund, 4th Earl of Minto British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000560.0x00033d ...

Denison, William Thomas, Sir, active 1838-1896, Lieutenant-General

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Epithet: Lieutenant-General British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001477.0x0003cd ...

Grant, James Hope, Sir, General

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Epithet: General British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000613.0x0001dd ...

Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901

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Queen Victoria was the only child of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn and Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld. She was born on May 24, 1819 at Kensington Palace in London and she became heir to the throne when her father died. In 1837, she became Queen at the age of 18. During the early part of her reign, she was influenced by two men: her first Prime Minister, Lord Melbourne, and then her husband, Prince Albert, whom she married in 1840. Both men taught her much about how to be ...

Wellesley, Arthur

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Title: 1st Duke of Wellington British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001149.0x000136 Epithet: Colonel; Commissioner for the affairs of Mysore, etc., afterwards Duke of Wellington British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001028.0x000191 Arthur Wellesley (1796-1852), military leader famous for his victory over Napoleon at the battl...

Stanley, Edward Henry, active 1838-1896, Lord Stanley; 15th Earl of Derby; Creator of Mss Eur D557

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Epithet: Lord Stanley; 15th Earl of Derby; Creator of Mss Eur D557 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001512.0x0001bb ...

Mamdot, Nawabs of

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Title: Nawabs of British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001347.0x00006e ...

Swat, Akhoon of

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Epithet: Akhoon of British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001512.0x000262 ...

Wodehouse, John

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Title: 1st Earl of Kimberley British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001569.0x000144 Epithet: Lord Wodehouse British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000354.0x00033b Epithet: 1st Baron Wodehouse Title: 6th Baronet British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100...

Cavendish-Bentinck, William Henry, Lord, 1774-1839, KCB, Governor-General of India

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Epithet: KCB, Governor-General of India British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001035.0x000348 ...

Shore, J.

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Title: 1st Baron Teignmouth British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001512.0x0000d8 Epithet: of Egerton Ch 7533 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001034.0x00007e Epithet: Member of the Council at Fort William afterwards Baron Teignmouth, and Governor-General of Bengal British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Pers...

Frere, Bartle, Sir, 1815-1884

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English statesman. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Wimbledon, to sir Henry Rawlinson, 1871 May 20. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270752259 1842-1844 private secretary to governor of Bombay; 1847-1850 political resident and commissioner to Satara; 1851-1859 commissioner of Sind; 1859 KCB; 1859-1862 member of the council of the viceroy; 1862-1867 governor of Bombay; 1867-1877 member of the Indian Council in London; 1867 GCSI; 1876 baronetcy; 187...

Hardinge, Henry, 1st Viscount Hardinge of Lahore, Field Marshal

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Epithet: Field Marshal Title: 1st Viscount Hardinge of Lahore British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001244.0x0001a7 Epithet: Field-Marshal Governor-Gen of India Title: 1st Viscount Hardinge British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000699.0x0003ad ...

Cornwallis, Charles Cornwallis, Marquis, 1738-1805

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Governor General of India and British army officer. From the description of Papers of Charles Cornwallis, Marquis Cornwallis, 1614-1854. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71068310 British general; second in command in North America during Revolution, surrendered to Washington at Yorktown. Later governor-general of India. From the description of Proclamation, 1781 March 18, North Carolina. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 86156104 Charle...

Cubbon, Mark, Sir, 1784-1861, Knight, commissioner of Mysore, army officer in India

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1800 cadet in the Madras infantry; 1801 lieutenant in the 15th Madras native infantry; 1816 captain, assistant commissary-general; 1817-1818 served in Third Anglo-Maratha War (Pindari War); 1822 deputy commissary-general for the Madras presidency; 1823 major; 1826 lieutenant-colonel; 1831 brevet colonel; 1834-1861 commissioner of Mysore; 1839 colonel of the 15th Madras native infantry; 1846 major-general; 1852 lieutenant-general; 1856 CB; 1857 KCB. Epithet: commissioner ...

Sen, Keshub Chunder, 1838-1884

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Gascoyne-Cecil, Robert Arthur Talbot, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury

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Title: 3rd Marquess of Salisbury British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001244.0x000015 Epithet: Viscount Cranborne, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, Prime Minister British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000349.0x000090 ...

Bayley, Charles Stuart, Sir, 1854-1935, Knight, administrator in India

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1877 barrister-at-law, Lincoln's Inn; 1877 joined the Indian Civil Service; under-secretary, government of Bengal; under-secretary, government of India; political agent, Bikaner; general superintendent of operations for the suppression of Thagi and Dakaiti; agent to the governor-general in central India; officiating lieutenant-governor, Eastern Bengal and Assam; resident at Hyderabad; -1912 lieutenant-governor, Eastern Bengal and Assam; 1912-1915 lieutenant-governor, Bihar and Oriss...

Bourke, Richard Southwell, 1822-1872, 6th Earl Mayo, politician, Viceroy of India

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1845 visited Russia; 1847 took part in famine relief in Ireland; 1847-1852 Member of Parliament for county Kildare; 1849 became Lord Naas; 1852-1857 Member of Parliament for Coleraine; 1852-1868 chief secretary for Ireland; 1857-1868 Member of Parliament for Cockermouth; 1867 earldom; 1869-1872 Viceroy of India; 1872 assasinated. Epithet: politician, Viceroy of India Title: 6th Earl Mayo British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person ...

Churchill, Randolph Henry Spencer, Lord, statesman

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Epithet: statesman British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001393.0x00030c ...

Cross, Richard Assheton, 1823-1914

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Title: 2nd Viscount Cross British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001083.0x00013a 1857-1862 Member of Parliament for Preston; 1868 Member of Parliament for South-West Lancashire; 1874-1880 Home Secretary; 1885-1886 Home Secretary; 1886-1892 Secretary of State for India; 1892 GCSI; 1895-1900 Lord Privy Seal. Epithet: statesman Title: 1st Viscount Cross British Library Arc...

Bruce, Victor Alexander, 1849-1917, 9th Earl of Elgin and 13th Earl of Kincardine, Viceroy of India

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Director of the North British Railway and of the Royal Bank of Scotland; 1881 chairman of the Scottish Liberal Association; 1886 Treasurer of the Household, then First Commissioner of Works; 1894-1899 Viceroy of India; 1905-1908 secretary of state for the Colonial Office Epithet: Viceroy of India Title: 9th Earl of Elgin and 13th Earl of Kincardine British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001...

Beadon, Cecil, Sir, 1816-1880, Knight, colonial administrator in India

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1836-1866 Indian Civil Service; 1843 under-secretary, the government of Bengal; 1850 representative of the Bengal presidency, commission of enquiry into the Indian postal system; 1850s secretary, the government of Bengal; c 1857-1860 home secretary, the government of India; 1860-1862 foreign secretary, the government of India; 1860-1862 member of the governor-general's council; 1862-1866 lieutenant-governor of Bengal; 1866 returned to Britain; 1866 KCSI. Epithet: colonia...

Palmer, Arthur Power, Sir, General

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Epithet: General British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001440.0x000124 ...

Haines, Frederick Paul, Sir, Field Marshal

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Epithet: Field Marshal British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001244.0x000166 ...

Merewether, William Lockyer, Sir, 1825-1880, Knight, army officer and administrator in India

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1841 entered Bombay Army as a second-lieutenant; 1843 served with the 21st Bombay native infantry in the conquest of Sindh; ? 1843 appointed to the Sind irregular horse; 1848-1849 served with the army of the Punjab in the Second Anglo-Sikh War; 1856 brevet captain; 1859 commandant of Sind irregular horse; 1860 CB; 1861 military secretary to the government of Bombay; 1863 political agent at Aden; 1867 commander of pioneer force in Abyssinia, lieutenant-colonel; 1868 KCSI, brevet colo...

Lawrence, John Laird Mair, 1811-1879

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India settlement officer; 1846 commissionership, Trans-Sutlej States; 1856 KCB; 1857 GCB; 1861 Knight Companion of the Order of the Star of India; 1864-1869 Viceroy of India. Title: 1st Baronet Lawrence British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001347.0x0001c8 ...

Broun-Ramsay, James Andrew, formerly Ramsay Marquess of Dalhousie, Governor-General of India

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Epithet: formerly Ramsay Marquess of Dalhousie, Governor-General of India British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000410.0x000233 ...

Napier, Robert Cornelis, 1810-1890

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1826 commissioned as a second-lieutenant; 1827 lieutenant; 1828 Bengal Sappers and Miners; 1829-1830 commanding a company at Delhi; 1830 sick leave at Mussooree; 1831-1836 assistant on the Great Eastern Jumna Canal project; 1836-1838 furlough; 1838-1840 acting executive engineer in the Barisal division of eastern Bengal; 1840 executive engineer of the Sirhind division; 1841 second-captain; 1842-1845 oversaw building of Ambala Cantonment; 1845-1846 chief engineer in army of the Sutle...

Ellenborough, Edward Law, earl of, 1790-1871

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Edward Law, 1st Earl of Ellenborough, British politician and governor-general of India. From the guide to the Edward Law, Earl of Ellenborough manuscript material : 1 item, ca. 1845-1855?, (The New York Public Library. Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle.) British Tory politician; Governor-General of India. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Cheltenham, to Mr. [Banting?], 1834 Aug. 26. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 603767822 ...

Jhansi, Rani of

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Epithet: Rani of British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001244.0x00038d ...

White, George Stuart 1835-1912

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1853 commissioned ensign in the 27th foot (Inniskilling fusiliers); 1878-1880 served with 92nd (Gordon) Highlanders in Second Anglo-Afghan War; 1879 VC, CB, brevet lieutenant-colonel; 1880 military secretary to the viceroy; 1884-1885 assistant quartermaster-general in Egypt; 1885 commanded 3rd brigade in Third Anglo-Burmese War; 1886 commander in Upper Burma; 1886 KCB; 1889 Major-General; 1889-1893 commander at Quetta; 1889 Zhob valley expedition; 1893 GCIE; 1893- commander-in-chief...

Metcalfe, Charles Theophilus, Baron Metcalfe

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Title: Baron Metcalfe British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001347.0x0002d2 ...

Rose, Hugh Henry, Field Marshal Baron Strathnairn

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Epithet: Field Marshal Baron Strathnairn British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001440.0x000378 Epithet: Baron Strathnairn British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000295.0x00030f ...

Campbell, Sir Colin, Baron Clyde, 1792-1863

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1808 appointed ensign in the 9th regiment; 1808-1813 served in Peninsular War; 1809 lieutenant; 1813 captain; 1816 joined 5th battalion 60th rifles at Gibraltar; 1818 transferred to 21st regiment (Royal Scots Fusiliers) at Barbado; 1821-1826 aide-de-camp to governor of British Guiana; 1825 major; 1832 lieutenant-colonel; 1835 lieutenant-colonel of the 98th; 1841-1846 served in China; 1842 aide-de-camp to the queen, colonel, CB; 1844 brigadier-general; 1847 commander of the brigade a...

Tagore, Prasanna Kumar

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Curzon, George Nathaniel, , 1859-1925

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George Nathaniel Curzon was born at Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire, in 1859. He was educated at Eton College and Balliol College, Oxford. In 1885, he was appointed assistant private secretary to the Marquis of Salisbury and in the same year contested the parliamentary seat for South Derbyshire. In 1886, he was elected Conservative Member of Parliament for the Southport division of Lancashire, serving between 1891 and 1892 as under-secretary of state for India, and from 1895 to 1898, as ...

Clive, Robert Clive, baron, 1725-1774

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Governor of Bengal, 1758-1760; 1764-1767. From the description of Letters , 1757-1758. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 86126330 1744-1746 writer, East India Company; 1746 accountant's office, East India Company; 1746 ensign, army of the East India Company; 1749 lieutenant; 1751 captain; 1954-1755 Member of Parliament for the borough of Mitchell; 1756 Govenor of Fort Saint David; 1758-1760 Govenor of Bengal; 1761-1765 Member of Parliament for Shrewsbury; 1765-1767...

Napoleon, Eugene Louis Jean Joseph, 1856-1879

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1870-1871 served in the Franco-Prussian War; 1871 fled to Britain; 1870s joined the Royal Artillery, lieutenant; 1879 served in the Anglo-Zulu War and killed in action. Title: Prince Imperial of France British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000621.0x00015a ...

Morley, John, 1838-1923

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English statesman and author. From the description of Autograph letters signed (7) : to Prof. Knight, 1876-1904. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270613155 1886 and 1892-1895 Chief Secretary for Ireland; 1905-1910 and 1911 Secretary of State for India. Epithet: statesman Title: Viscount Morley of Blackburn British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001026.0x0001f0 ...

Wellesley, Richard Colley, 2nd Earl of Mornington; Marquess Wellesley

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Title: 2nd Earl of Mornington; Marquess Wellesley British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001569.0x00008e ...

Temple, Richard, Sir, 3rd Baronet, MP

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Epithet: of Add MS 34195 Title: Viscount Cobham British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001241.0x00005c Epithet: GCSI, 1st Baronet British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000750.0x0003a2 Epithet: of Add MS 61297 Title: Viscount Cobham British Library Archives and Manus...

Rao, Dinkar, active 1842-1883, Raja Sir

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Mansfield, William Rose, 1st Baron Sandhurst, General

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Epithet: General Title: 1st Baron Sandhurst British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001347.0x00007d ...

Hamilton, George Francis, Lord, 1845-1927

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1868-1885 Member of Parliament for the County of Middlesex; 1874-1878 Under-Secretary of State for India; 1885-1906 Member of Parliament for Ealing Division; 1885-1886 First Lord of the Admiralty; 1895-1903 Secretary of State for India; 1905-1909 Chairman of Royal Commission upon Poor Law and Unemployment; 1916-1917 Chairman of Mesopotamia Commission. Epithet: statesman British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vd...

Bowring, Katherine, née Bellasis

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Epithet: née Bellasis British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001394.0x00024f ...

Eden, George

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Epithet: Creator of Mss Eur B153 Title: Earl of Auckland British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001477.0x00013d Epithet: of Add MS 45730 Title: Earl of Auckland British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000817.0x00009d Epithet: of Add MS 43243 Title: Earl of Auckland ...

Robinson, Frederick John, 1st Earl of Ripon, Prime Minister

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Epithet: Prime Minister Title: 1st Earl of Ripon British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001302.0x000167 Epithet: Viscount Goderich, 1st Earl of Ripon British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001186.0x000076 ...

Fitzpatrick, Dennis, Sir, active 1875-1913

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Roberts, Frederick Sleigh

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Epithet: Field-Marshal Title: 1st Earl Roberts British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001083.0x000267 Epithet: Field Marshal Title: 1st Earl Roberts of Kandahar British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001440.0x000334 ...

Fitzmaurice, Henry Charles Keith Petty-, 1845-1927, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne

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Politician; 1869 junior Whig whip; 1872 under-secretary for war; 1880 under-secretary for India; 1883-1888 Governor-general of Canada; 1888-1894 Viceroy of India; 1895-1900 war secretary; 1900-1905 foreign secretary. Title: 5th Marquess of Lansdowne British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000561.0x000112 ...

Baring, Thomas George, 1826-1904, 1st Earl of Northbrook, Viceroy of India

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1857-1858 Lord of the Admiralty; 1857–1866 MP for Falmouth and Penryn; 1859-1864 under-secretary, India Office; 1861 and 1868-1872 under-secretary, War Office; 1864-1866 under-secretary, Home Office; 1872-1876 viceroy of India; 1880-1885 first lord of the Admiralty. Epithet: Viceroy of India Title: 1st Earl of Northbrook British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000560.0x0003b5 ...

Lockhart, William Stephen Alexander, Sir, General

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Epithet: General British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001347.0x0002cb ...

Blackwood, Frederick Temple Hamilton-Temple-, 1826-1902, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, diplomat

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1849–52 and 1854–58 Lord-in-waiting to Queen Victoria; 1864 lord lieutenant, 1864 County Down; 1864-1866 under-secretary of state for India; 1866 under-secretary, War Office; 1872-1878 governor-general of Canada; 1879-1881 British ambassador to St Petersburg; 1881 British ambassador to Constantinople; 1882 Special Commissioner to Egypt; 1884-1888 Viceroy of India; 1889-1891 British ambassador to Rome; 1891-1896 British ambassador to France. Honours: 1861 KCB; 1863 KP; 1876 GCMG; 188...

Phayre, Arthur P.

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Epithet: administrator in Burma Title: Knight British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000750.0x00038d ...

Brodrick, William St John Fremantle, 1st Earl of Midleton

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Title: 1st Earl of Midleton British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000613.0x00022b ...

Fowler, Henry Hartley, 1st Viscount Wolverhampton

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Title: 1st Viscount Wolverhampton British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001149.0x0000dd ...

Kynynmound, Gilbert Elliot Murray, 1751-1814, 1st Earl Minto, colonial governor and politician

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1769 entered Lincoln's Inn; 1774 called to the bar; 1776-1777 Member of Parliament for Morpeth; 1777-1784 Member of Parliament for Roxburghshire; 1781 member of the Commons select committee on the Bengal judiciary; 1786-1790 Member of Parliament, Berwick-Upon-Tweed; 1790-1795 Member of Parliament for Helston; 1793 civil commissioner of Toulon; 1794 British minister to the Italian states; 1794-1796 Viceroy of Corsica; 1797 baronetcy; 1799-1801 envoy-extraordinary and minister-plenipo...

Delhi

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TitleOccupation: Royal Family of British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Family : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000020.0x000227 ...

Parlakimedi, Nawabs of

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Title: Nawabs of British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001440.0x000147 ...

Campbell, George Douglas, 1823-1900, 8th Duke of Argyll, statesman

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1852-1855 Lord Privy Seal; 1855-1858 Postmaster-General; 1859-1866 Lord Privy Seal; 1868-1874 Secretary of State for India; 1880-1881 Lord Privy Seal. Epithet: statesman Title: 8th Duke of Argyll British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000543.0x000234 ...

Bradford, Edward

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Epithet: Colonel; GCB, of the Indian Secret Police Title: Baronet British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000473.0x0002ad Epithet: Colonel Title: 1st Baronet British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001083.0x0000d1 ...