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| Date transcribed | 2011-03-01 | | Transcribed by | Peter Bailey | | Comment | Note that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name pattern established by Buckland in his original work. |
| | Surname | Eden | | | First Name(s) | Ashley | | | Titles | The Hon., Sir | | | Year of Birth | 1831 | | | Year of Death | 1887 | | | Entry | Indian Civil Service : third son of the third Lord Auckland, Bishop of Bath and Wells, and nephew of the Governor-General Lord Auckland : born on Nov. 13, 1831 : educated at Rugby, Winchester, and Haileybury : arrived in India in 1852 : distinguished himself in the Sonthal insurrection, 1855 : Secretary to the Bengal Government from 1862-71, and in the Bengal Legislative Council : employed to make a treaty with the Raja of Sikhim in 1861, and as envoy to Bhutan in 1863-4, where he was subjected to gross indignities, and compelled to sign a treaty which the British Government repudiated and declared war on Bhutan. Eden was Chief Commissioner of British Burma, 1871-7, acting, in 1875, as Member of the Supreme Council. He was Lieutenant- Governor of Bengal, 1877 to 1882, and President of the Army Commission for some months in 1879. In Bengal he exhibited such capacity, and attained such success in his administration, that his retirement was universally deplored, and a statue erected in his honour in Calcutta. He was in the Council of India from 1882 till his death on July 8, 1887. He was made C.S.I. in 1874, and K.C.S.I. in 1878. Though last in his term at Haileybury, he was one of the ablest officers of modern times : his common sense and penetration were combined with fearlessness and force in the statement of his views. |
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