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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 | Fawcett | | | First Name(s) | Henry | | | Year of Birth | 1833 | | | Year of Death | 1884 | | | Entry | Son of William Fawcett, J. P. : born Aug. 26, 1833 : educated at Alderbury, Queenwood, King's College, London, Peterhouse and Trinity Hall, Cambridge : seventh Wrangler and Fellow, 1856 : totally lost his sight by an accident out shooting, Sep. 1858 : wrote a Manual of Political Economy, and frequently on political and economic subjects : elected Professor of Pol. Econy. at Cambridge, 1863 : M.P. for Brighton, 1865 and 1868 : for Hackney, 1874 and 1880 : adopted, as a Radical member, an independent line in public measures : for his marked interest in Indian affairs he was known as the Member for India : dwelling on the poverty of India, he strenuously advocated economy, justice to the Indian revenues, and the native interests. Thus, he opposed the charging of the Ball to the Sultan (1867) upon Indian revenues : by his persistence the Committees on Indian finance were appointed 1871-4 : he spoke fully and forcibly on Indian budgets : was a member of the Committee on Indian Public Works, 1878 : opposed the Malta expedition, 1878, and the debit of any of the charge to India : opposed the Afghan war, 1878-80 : wrote on Indian Finance in the Nineteenth Century, 1879 : his views, though contested at the time, since generally accepted : his knowledge and character gained him great respect and influence in Indian affairs : as Postmaster-General, from 1880, effected many administrative improvements : P.C. : F.R.S., 1882 : D.C.L. Oxford, 1881: Doctor of Political Economy, Wurzburg, 1882 : a corresponding member of the Institute of France, 1884 : LL.D. and Lord Rector of Glasgow University, 1883 : died at Cambridge, Nov. 6, 1884 : a national monument to him placed in Westminster Abbey. |
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