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'''Mountstuart Elphinstone''' {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|FRSE}} (6 October 1779 – 20 November 1859) was a Scottish ] and historian, associated with the government of ]. He later became the ] (now ]) where he is credited with the opening of several educational institutions accessible to the Indian population. Besides being a noted administrator, he wrote books on India and ]. His works are pertinent examples of the colonial historiographical trend.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Ahir |first=Rajiv |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HBziwQEACAAJ&q=history+of+modern+india+rajiv+ahir |title=A Brief History of Modern India |date=2018 |publisher=Spectrum Books (P) Limited |isbn=978-81-7930-688-8 |pages=14 |language=en}}</ref> | |||
==Early life== | ==Early life== | ||
Born in ], ] (now ]) |
Born in ], ] (now ]) on 6 October 1779,{{Sfn|Cotton|1892|p=17}} educated at the ]. He was the fourth son of the 11th ], by Anna, daughter of ],{{Sfn|Cotton|1892|p=17}} in the peerage of ]. Having been appointed to the civil service of the ], of which one of his uncles was a director, he arrived at Calcutta (now Kolkata) early in 1796 where he filled several subordinate posts. In 1799, he escaped massacre in Benares (now ]) by the followers of the deposed ] ]. In 1801 he was transferred to the Diplomatic Service where he was posted as the assistant to the British resident ] at the court of the ] ruler ]. | ||
==Envoy== | ==Envoy== | ||
In the Peshwa court he obtained his first opportunity of distinction, being attached in the capacity of diplomatist to the mission of ] to the ]. When, on the failure of negotiations, war broke out, Elphinstone, though a civilian, acted as virtual '']'' to Wellesley. At the ], and throughout the campaign, he displayed rare courage and knowledge of tactics such that Wellesley told him he ought to have been a soldier. In 1804, when the war ended, Elphinstone was appointed British resident at ]. This gave him plenty of leisure time, which he spent in reading and study. Later, in 1807, he completed a short stint at ]. | In the Peshwa court he obtained his first opportunity of distinction, being attached in the capacity of diplomatist to the mission of ] to the ]. When, on the failure of negotiations, war broke out, Elphinstone, though a civilian, acted as virtual '']'' to Wellesley. At the ], and throughout the campaign, he displayed rare courage and knowledge of tactics such that Wellesley told him he ought to have been a soldier. In 1804, when the war ended, Elphinstone was appointed British resident at ].<ref name=EB1911>{{EB1911 |wstitle=Elphinstone, Mountstuart |volume=9 |pages=298–299 |inline=1}}</ref> This gave him plenty of leisure time, which he spent in reading and study. Later, in 1807, he completed a short stint at ]. | ||
In 1808 he was appointed the first British ] to the court of ], |
In 1808 he was appointed the first British ] to the court of ], Afghanistan, with the object of securing a friendly alliance with the ] against ]'s planned advance on ]. However this proved of little value, because ] was driven from the throne by his brother before it could be ratified. The most valuable permanent result of the embassy was in Elphinstone's work titled ''Account of the Kingdom of Cabul and its Dependencies in Persia and India'' (1815).<ref name=EB1911/> | ||
After spending about a year in Calcutta arranging the report of his mission, Elphinstone was appointed in 1811 to the important and difficult post of resident at ] |
After spending about a year in Calcutta arranging the report of his mission, Elphinstone was appointed in 1811 to the important and difficult post of resident at ]. The difficulty arose from the general complication of Maratha politics, and especially from the weakness of the Peshwas, which Elphinstone rightly read from the first. The tenuous peace between the Peshwas was broken in 1817 with the Marathas declaring war on the British. Elphinstone assumed command of the military during an important crisis during the ] also called ] and managed to secure a victory<ref name=EB1911/> despite his non-military background. As reparations, Peshwa territories were annexed by the British. Elphinstone became the Commissioner of the Deccan in 1818. | ||
==Governor== | ==Governor== | ||
], ], established in 1856]] | ], ], established in 1856]] | ||
In 1819 Elphinstone was appointed ], a post he held until 1827. During his tenure, he greatly promoted education in India, at a time when opinion in Britain was against educating the "natives |
In 1819, Elphinstone was appointed ], a post he held until 1827. During his tenure, he greatly promoted education in India, at a time when opinion in Britain was against educating the "natives". He may fairly be regarded as the founder of the system of state education in India. One of his principal achievements was the compilation of the "Elphinstone code."<ref name=EB1911/> He also returned many lands that had appropriated by the British to the Raja of ]. | ||
He built the first bungalow in ] during this time, and following his example, many prominent people took up residence here. It soon became a |
He built the first bungalow in ] during this time, and following his example, many prominent people took up residence here. It soon became a fashionable locality, and remains so to the present.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Nair|first=Manoj R.|date=26 July 2011|title=Malabar Hill: How a jungle turned into a posh address|url=https://www.dnaindia.com/mumbai/report-malabar-hill-how-a-jungle-turned-into-a-posh-address-1569445|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210605120853/https://www.dnaindia.com/mumbai/report-malabar-hill-how-a-jungle-turned-into-a-posh-address-1569445|archive-date=5 June 2021|access-date=20 February 2019|website=]|publisher=DNA India}}</ref> | ||
His connection with the ] is commemorated in the endowment of ] by local communities, and in the erection of a marble statue by the European inhabitants. However, the Elphinstone Road railway station and the ], both in ] city, are not named after him but in honour of his nephew, ], who later also became Governor of Bombay in the 1850s. | His connection with the ] is commemorated in the endowment of ] by local communities, and in the erection of a marble statue by the European inhabitants.<ref name=EB1911/> However, the ] and the ], both in ] city, are not named after him but in honour of his nephew, ], who later also became ] in the 1850s. One of Karachi's main commercial streets was previously named ]<ref>{{Cite book|last=Baillie|first=Alexander Francis|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7tIwAQAAMAAJ&q=Mountstuart+%22Elphinstone+street%22|title=Kurrachee: (Karachi) Past, Present and Future|date=1890|publisher=Thacker, Spink|language=en}}</ref> but has been renamed ]. | ||
The township of ], Australia was named after him. The suburb of Mount Stuart, Tasmania, Australia and its main road, Elphinstone Road, were also named after him. | The township of ], ], was named after him. The suburb of ], ], and its main road, Elphinstone Road, were also named after him.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.mountstuarttas.org.au/?q=content/mount-stuart-history|title = Mount Stuart Website – A collaboration of Mount Stuart Residents Inc & Mount Stuart Hall Inc}}</ref> | ||
There is a statue of him in the crypt of St Paul's Cathedral in London.<ref></ref> | There is a statue of him in the crypt of ] in ].<ref></ref> | ||
==Return to |
==Return to Great Britain== | ||
Returning to Britain in 1829, after an interval of two years' travel, Elphinstone continued to influence public affairs, but based in England rather than Scotland. Nevertheless, he was elected a Fellow of the ] in 1830 with his proposer being ].<ref>{{cite book|title= |
Returning to Britain in 1829, after an interval of two years' travel, Elphinstone continued to influence public affairs,<ref name=EB1911/> but based in England rather than Scotland. Nevertheless, he was elected a Fellow of the ] in 1830 with his proposer being ].<ref name=BIFF>{{cite book|title=Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002|date=July 2006|publisher=The Royal Society of Edinburgh|isbn=0-902-198-84-X|url=https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp1.pdf}}</ref> | ||
He was one of the seven founders of the ] which formed on 16 July 1830.<ref name="Markham23">{{cite book |last=Markham |first=Sir Clements Robert |date=1881 |title=The Fifty Years' Work of the Royal Geographical Society |publisher=J. Murray |page=23}}</ref> | |||
He twice refused appointment as ], preferring to finish his two-volume work, ''History of India'' (1841). He died in Hookwood, ], England on 20 November 1859. He is buried in ] churchyard.<ref>{{cite book|title=BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX OF FORMER FELLOWS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH 1783 – 2002|date=July 2006|publisher=The Royal Society of Edinburgh|isbn=0 902 198 84 X|url=https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp1.pdf}}</ref> | |||
He twice refused appointment as ], preferring to finish his two-volume work, ''History of India'' (1841). He died in ], Surrey, England, on 20 November 1859.{{Sfn|Cotton|1892|pp=216–217}} He is buried in ] churchyard.<ref name=BIFF /> There is also a memorial to him in ].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Sinclair|first=William Macdonald|url=https://archive.org/details/memorialsstpauls00sinciala/page/462/mode/2up|title=Memorials of St. Paul's Cathedral|publisher=Chapman and Hall|year=1909|location=London|pages=462|author-link=William Sinclair (archdeacon of London)}}</ref> | |||
⚫ | James Sutherland Cotton later wrote his biography as part of the ] in 1892.<ref>{{cite journal|title= |
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⚫ | ] later wrote his biography as part of the ] in 1892.<ref>{{cite journal|date=1892|title=Reviewed Work: Rulers of India. Mountstuart Elphinstone. By J. S. Cotton, M.A. (Oxford: The Clarendon Press. 1892.)|journal=]|volume=7|issue=28|page=813|jstor=547455}}</ref> | ||
The historian ] named ] after Elphinstone. | The historian ] named ] after Elphinstone. | ||
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==Published works== | ||
* {{cite book|last=Elphinstone|first=Mountstuart |
* {{cite book|last=Elphinstone|first=Mountstuart|title=An Account of the Kingdom of Cabul, and its Dependencies in Persia, Tartary, and India|url=https://www.wdl.org/en/item/16798|year=1815|location=London|publisher=Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown}} | ||
* |
*{{cite book|last=Elphinstone|first=Mountstuart|title=The History of India|url=https://archive.org/stream/historyofindia01elph#page/n3/mode/2up|year=1841|publisher=John Murray|location=London|edition=1|volume=I}} | ||
* {{cite book|last=Elphinstone|first=Mountstuart |
* {{cite book|last=Elphinstone|first=Mountstuart|title=The History of India|url=https://archive.org/stream/thehistoryofin02elphiala#page/n5/mode/2up|year=1841|edition=1|volume=II|location=London|publisher=John Murray}} | ||
* {{cite book|last=Elphinstone|first=Mountstuart |title=History of India|url=https:// |
** {{cite book|last=Elphinstone|first=Mountstuart |title=History of India|url=https://archive.org/details/historyofindiahi00elphuoft|publisher=John Murray|location=London|edition=9|ol=14012858M |year=1905}} | ||
*{{cite book|last=Elphinstone|first=Mountstuart|title=The Rise of the British Power in the East|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mg4oAAAAYAAJ|publisher=John Murray|location=London|year=1887|editor-last=Colebrooke|editor-first=Edward|editor-link=Edward Colebrooke, 1st Baron Colebrooke}} | |||
*''The Rise of British Power in the East'' (1887) | |||
==See also== | ==See also== | ||
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{{Reflist}} | {{Reflist}} | ||
== Bibliography == | |||
⚫ | ==Further reading== | ||
* {{Cite book|last=Cotton|first=James Sutherland|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sps2AAAAMAAJ|title=Mountstuart Elphinstone|publisher=Clarendon Press|year=1892|series=] XII|location=Oxford|isbn=9788130700281 |author-link=James Sutherland Cotton}} | |||
⚫ | == Further reading == | ||
* {{Cite ODNB|id=8752|title=Elphinstone, Mountstuart}} | * {{Cite ODNB|id=8752|title=Elphinstone, Mountstuart}} | ||
* {{Cite journal|last1=Chandra|first1=Gautam|last2=Mishra|first2=Veerendra Kumar|date=2018|title=From inactivity to encouragement: the contribution of Lord Elphinstone to the educational development of the Madras Presidency (1837–1842)|journal=History of Education|pages=763–778|doi=10.1080/0046760X.2018.1484181|volume=47|s2cid=149918876}} | |||
* J. S. Cotton, ''Mountstuart Elphinstone'' (]), (1892) | |||
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* {{Cite book|last=Colebrooke|first=Thomas Edward|url=https://archive.org/details/dli.csl.5047|title=Life of Hon. Mountstuart Elphinstone|publisher=John Murray|year=1884|volume=I|location=London|author-link=Sir Edward Colebrooke, 4th Baronet}} | ||
* {{Cite book|last=Colebrooke|first=Thomas Edward|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fCc_AQAAIAAJ|title=Life of Hon. Mountstuart Elphinstone|publisher=John Murray|year=1884|volume=II|location=London|author-mask=13|author-link=Sir Edward Colebrooke, 4th Baronet}} | |||
* G. W. Forrest, ''Official Writings of Mountstuart Elphinstone'' (1884) | |||
* {{Cite journal|last=Colebrooke|first=Edward|date=1861|title=Memoir of the Honourable Mountstuart Elphinstone|journal=The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland|volume=18|pages=221–344|doi=10.1017/S0035869X00013678|jstor=25228701|s2cid=161743974 |url=https://zenodo.org/record/2190621}} | |||
* {{Citation| last1=Harrington| first1=Jack| authorlink=| year=2010| title=Sir John Malcolm and the Creation of British India, Ch. 5 | place=| publisher=New York: ].| isbn=978-0-230-10885-1| url=|ref=none}} | |||
* {{Cite book|last=Cotton|first=James Sutherland|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sps2AAAAMAAJ|title=Mountstuart Elphinstone and the Making of Southwestern India|publisher=Clarendon Press|year=1911|location=Oxford|isbn=9788130700281 |author-link=James Sutherland Cotton|author-mask=11}} | |||
* (GFDL site) | |||
* {{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ImoIAAAAQAAJ|title=Selections from the Minutes and Other Official Writings of the Honourable Mountstuart Elphinstone, Governor of Bombay|publisher=Richard Bentley and Son|year=1884|editor-last=Forrest|editor-first=George W.|editor-link=George W. Forrest|location=London}} | |||
* William Dalrymple, ''White Mughals'' Oxford UP 2002. | |||
* {{Cite magazine|last=Kaye|first=John William|author-link=John William Kaye|date=1859|title=Mountstuart Elphinstone: In Memoriam|url=https://archive.org/details/onceweek01londuoft/page/502/mode/2up|magazine=]|volume=I|pages=502–504}} | |||
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Scottish statesman and historian For the later Governor of Madras, see Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff.
Mountstuart ElphinstoneFRSE | |
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Governor of Bombay | |
In office 1 November 1819 – 1 November 1827 | |
Governors‑General | The Marquess of Hastings The Earl Amhurst |
Preceded by | Sir Evan Nepean |
Succeeded by | Sir John Malcolm |
Personal details | |
Born | 6 October 1779 Dumbarton, Dumbartonshire, Scotland |
Died | 20 November 1859(1859-11-20) (aged 80) Hookwood, Surrey, England |
Nationality | British |
Alma mater | Royal High School |
Occupation | Statesman, historian |
Signature | |
Mountstuart Elphinstone FRSE (6 October 1779 – 20 November 1859) was a Scottish statesman and historian, associated with the government of British India. He later became the Governor of Bombay (now Mumbai) where he is credited with the opening of several educational institutions accessible to the Indian population. Besides being a noted administrator, he wrote books on India and Afghanistan. His works are pertinent examples of the colonial historiographical trend.
Early life
Born in Dumbarton, Dumbartonshire (now Dunbartonshire) on 6 October 1779, educated at the Royal High School. He was the fourth son of the 11th Baron Elphinstone, by Anna, daughter of Lord Ruthven, in the peerage of Scotland. Having been appointed to the civil service of the British East India Company, of which one of his uncles was a director, he arrived at Calcutta (now Kolkata) early in 1796 where he filled several subordinate posts. In 1799, he escaped massacre in Benares (now Varanasi) by the followers of the deposed Nawab of Awadh Wazir Ali Khan. In 1801 he was transferred to the Diplomatic Service where he was posted as the assistant to the British resident Josiah Webbe at the court of the Peshwa ruler Baji Rao II.
Envoy
In the Peshwa court he obtained his first opportunity of distinction, being attached in the capacity of diplomatist to the mission of Sir Arthur Wellesley to the Marathas. When, on the failure of negotiations, war broke out, Elphinstone, though a civilian, acted as virtual aide-de-camp to Wellesley. At the Battle of Assaye, and throughout the campaign, he displayed rare courage and knowledge of tactics such that Wellesley told him he ought to have been a soldier. In 1804, when the war ended, Elphinstone was appointed British resident at Nagpur. This gave him plenty of leisure time, which he spent in reading and study. Later, in 1807, he completed a short stint at Gwalior.
In 1808 he was appointed the first British envoy to the court of Kabul, Afghanistan, with the object of securing a friendly alliance with the Afghans against Napoleon's planned advance on India. However this proved of little value, because Shah Shuja was driven from the throne by his brother before it could be ratified. The most valuable permanent result of the embassy was in Elphinstone's work titled Account of the Kingdom of Cabul and its Dependencies in Persia and India (1815).
After spending about a year in Calcutta arranging the report of his mission, Elphinstone was appointed in 1811 to the important and difficult post of resident at Pune. The difficulty arose from the general complication of Maratha politics, and especially from the weakness of the Peshwas, which Elphinstone rightly read from the first. The tenuous peace between the Peshwas was broken in 1817 with the Marathas declaring war on the British. Elphinstone assumed command of the military during an important crisis during the Battle of Khadki also called Third Anglo-Maratha War and managed to secure a victory despite his non-military background. As reparations, Peshwa territories were annexed by the British. Elphinstone became the Commissioner of the Deccan in 1818.
Governor
In 1819, Elphinstone was appointed Lieutenant-Governor of Bombay, a post he held until 1827. During his tenure, he greatly promoted education in India, at a time when opinion in Britain was against educating the "natives". He may fairly be regarded as the founder of the system of state education in India. One of his principal achievements was the compilation of the "Elphinstone code." He also returned many lands that had appropriated by the British to the Raja of Satara.
He built the first bungalow in Malabar Hill during this time, and following his example, many prominent people took up residence here. It soon became a fashionable locality, and remains so to the present.
His connection with the Bombay Presidency is commemorated in the endowment of Elphinstone College by local communities, and in the erection of a marble statue by the European inhabitants. However, the Elphinstone Road railway station and the Elphinstone Circle, both in Mumbai city, are not named after him but in honour of his nephew, John, 13th Lord Elphinstone, who later also became Governor of Bombay in the 1850s. One of Karachi's main commercial streets was previously named Elphinstone Street but has been renamed Zaibunnisa Street.
The township of Elphinstone, Victoria, Australia, was named after him. The suburb of Mount Stuart, Tasmania, Australia, and its main road, Elphinstone Road, were also named after him.
There is a statue of him in the crypt of St Paul's Cathedral in London.
Return to Great Britain
Returning to Britain in 1829, after an interval of two years' travel, Elphinstone continued to influence public affairs, but based in England rather than Scotland. Nevertheless, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1830 with his proposer being Sir John Robison.
He was one of the seven founders of the Royal Geographical Society which formed on 16 July 1830.
He twice refused appointment as Governor-General of India, preferring to finish his two-volume work, History of India (1841). He died in Hookwood, Surrey, England, on 20 November 1859. He is buried in Limpsfield churchyard. There is also a memorial to him in St Paul's Cathedral.
James Sutherland Cotton later wrote his biography as part of the Rulers of India series in 1892.
The historian James Grant Duff named his son after Elphinstone.
Published works
- Elphinstone, Mountstuart (1815). An Account of the Kingdom of Cabul, and its Dependencies in Persia, Tartary, and India. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown.
- Elphinstone, Mountstuart (1841). The History of India. Vol. I (1 ed.). London: John Murray.
- Elphinstone, Mountstuart (1841). The History of India. Vol. II (1 ed.). London: John Murray.
- Elphinstone, Mountstuart (1905). History of India (9 ed.). London: John Murray. OL 14012858M.
- Elphinstone, Mountstuart (1887). Colebrooke, Edward (ed.). The Rise of the British Power in the East. London: John Murray.
See also
References
- Ahir, Rajiv (2018). A Brief History of Modern India. Spectrum Books (P) Limited. p. 14. ISBN 978-81-7930-688-8.
- ^ Cotton 1892, p. 17.
- ^ One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Elphinstone, Mountstuart". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 9 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 298–299.
- Nair, Manoj R. (26 July 2011). "Malabar Hill: How a jungle turned into a posh address". DNA India. DNA India. Archived from the original on 5 June 2021. Retrieved 20 February 2019.
- Baillie, Alexander Francis (1890). Kurrachee: (Karachi) Past, Present and Future. Thacker, Spink.
- "Mount Stuart Website – A collaboration of Mount Stuart Residents Inc & Mount Stuart Hall Inc".
- St Paul's – The New Church
- ^ Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0-902-198-84-X.
- Markham, Sir Clements Robert (1881). The Fifty Years' Work of the Royal Geographical Society. J. Murray. p. 23.
- Cotton 1892, pp. 216–217.
- Sinclair, William Macdonald (1909). Memorials of St. Paul's Cathedral. London: Chapman and Hall. p. 462.
- "Reviewed Work: Rulers of India. Mountstuart Elphinstone. By J. S. Cotton, M.A. (Oxford: The Clarendon Press. 1892.)". The English Historical Review. 7 (28): 813. 1892. JSTOR 547455.
Bibliography
- Cotton, James Sutherland (1892). Mountstuart Elphinstone. Rulers of India XII. Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 9788130700281.
Further reading
- "Elphinstone, Mountstuart". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/8752. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- Chandra, Gautam; Mishra, Veerendra Kumar (2018). "From inactivity to encouragement: the contribution of Lord Elphinstone to the educational development of the Madras Presidency (1837–1842)". History of Education. 47: 763–778. doi:10.1080/0046760X.2018.1484181. S2CID 149918876.
- Colebrooke, Thomas Edward (1884). Life of Hon. Mountstuart Elphinstone. Vol. I. London: John Murray.
- ————————————— (1884). Life of Hon. Mountstuart Elphinstone. Vol. II. London: John Murray.
- Colebrooke, Edward (1861). "Memoir of the Honourable Mountstuart Elphinstone". The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland. 18: 221–344. doi:10.1017/S0035869X00013678. JSTOR 25228701. S2CID 161743974.
- ——————————— (1911). Mountstuart Elphinstone and the Making of Southwestern India. Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 9788130700281.
- Forrest, George W., ed. (1884). Selections from the Minutes and Other Official Writings of the Honourable Mountstuart Elphinstone, Governor of Bombay. London: Richard Bentley and Son.
- Kaye, John William (1859). "Mountstuart Elphinstone: In Memoriam". Once a Week. Vol. I. pp. 502–504.
External links
- Macintyre, Ben (13 November 2008). "The harsh lesson of Afghanistan: little has changed in 200 years". The Times.
- "Archival material relating to Mountstuart Elphinstone". UK National Archives.
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Preceded bySir Evan Nepean | Governor of Bombay 1819–1827 |
Succeeded byMaj Gen Sir John Malcolm |