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 Dictionary of Indian Biography D to F

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Date transcribed2011-03-01
Transcribed byPeter Bailey
CommentNote that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name pattern established by Buckland in his original work.

Surname  Derby    
First Name(s)  Edward Henry Stanley    
Titles  Fifteenth Earl Of    
Year of Birth  1826    
Year of Death  1893    
Entry  Son of fourteenth Earl of Derby, thrice Prime Minister : born July, 1826 : educated at Rugby and Trinity College, Cambridge : M.P. for King's Lynn, 1848 : travelled widely in N. and S. America : visited India, 1851-2 : Under Secy, for the Colonies, 1852 : Secretary for the Colonies, 1858 : was in charge of the Bill for transferring in 1858 the Government of India from the E. I. Company to the Queen : Secretary of State for India from Sep. 2, 1858, to June 18, 1859 : made Foreign Secretary : became Earl in 1869 : again Foreign Secretary : resigned, March, 1878 : Colonial Secretary in Mr. Gladstone's Government : presided over Royal Commissions : died April 21, 1893.     
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