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 Dictionary of Indian Biography G to I

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Date transcribed2011-04-00
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.

Surnames  Grey    
First Name(s)  William    
Titles  Sir    
Year of Birth  1818    
Year of Death  1878    
Entry  Born 1818 : son of Edward Grey, Bishop of Hereford, and grandson of first Earl Grey : was at Christ Church, Oxford, but left it to enter the War Office : educated at Haileybury : went to India in 1840 : Private Secretary to Sir Herbert Maddock, Deputy Governor of Bengal, 1845-7 : served in the Bengal Secretariat, and in the Secretariat of the Government of India, in the Home and Foreign Departments : Secretary to the Bank of Bengal, 1851-4 : Secretary to the Government of Bengal, 1854-7: Director General of the Post Office : Secretary to the Home Department, 1859 : Member of the Governor- General's Supreme Council, from April, 1862, to April, 1867 : had considerable difference of opinion with Sir John Lawrence, the Governor-General. When discussions arose after the Orissa famine, he opposed the proposed abolition of the Bengal Legislative Council, and, instead of any reduction in the status of the Bengal Government, advocated its assimilation to the Governments of Madras and Bombay. He held strong opinions about taxation, and his views did not agree with those of Lord Mayo : K.C.S.I, in 1871 : retired on March 1, 1871 : Governor of Jamaica, 1874-7 : died May 15, 1878.     
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