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Dictionary of Indian Biography M to R

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Date transcribed	2011-08-00
Transcribed by	Peter Bailey
Comment	Note that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name patterns established by Buckland in his original work.

	Surname	Minto
	First Name(s)	Gilbert John Murray Kynynmond Elliot
	Titles, Honours, etc.	Fourth Earl of
	Birth Year	1845
	Entry	Viceroy and Governor-General : born July 9, 1845 : son of third Earl : educated at Eton and Trinity College Cambridge ; B.A : in the Scots Guards, 1867-70 : was in Paris during the Communist outbreak, 1871 : correspondent, three years later, for the Morning Post, with the Carlist Army in Biscay and Navarre : served with the Turkish Army in the Russo-Turkish war, 1877 : at the bombardment of Nikopolis, and the crossing of the Danube : with Lord Roberts in the Afghan war, 1878-9 : was nearly accompanying Cavagnari (q.v.) to Kabul, 1879 : Private Secretary to Lord Roberts on his mission to the Cape, 1881 : was a volunteer, as Captain in the Mounted Infantry in Egypt, 1882: wounded, and rejoined : Military Secretary to the Marquis of Lansdowne, when Governor-General of Canada, 1883-5 : Chief of the Staff to General Middleton in quelling the Riel rebellion in N.W. Canada, 1885 : candidate for Hexham, 1886 : succeeded to the title, 1891 : Governor-General of Canada, 1898-1904 : received there T.R.H. the Prince and Princess of Wales : appointed Viceroy and Governor-General of India, August, 1905: G.C.M.G., 1898: P.C., J.P.: Hony. LL.D. Toronto.

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