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 Dictionary of Indian Biography G to I
| Date transcribed | 2011-04-00 | | 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. |
| | Surnames | Halliday | | | First Name(s) | Frederick James | | | Titles | Sir | | | Year of Birth | 1806 | | | Year of Death | 1901 | | | Entry | I.C.S. : born Dec. 26, 1806 : son of Thomas Halliday of Ewell : educated at St. Paul's school, Rugby, and Haileybury : went out to Bengal in June, 1825 : was Secretary to the Sadr Board of Revenue in 1836 : Secretary to the Government of Bengal, 1838 : Officiating Secretary to the Government of India in 1842 : Secretary to the Ho+G1 Department of the Government of India, 1849. While on furlough, in 1852-3, he was on 16 occasions examined before the Committees of the Lords and Commons on Indian subjects in connexion with the renewal of the E.I. Company's Charter : Member of the Governor-General's Supreme Council, Dec. 1853, to April, 1854 : the first Lieutenant- Governor of Bengal, from May 1, 1854, to May 1, 1859. His term of office as Lieutenant-Governor was eventful : the Sonthal insurrection required the movement of troops and strong measures for its suppression : the Indian mutiny did not eventually assume such proportions in Lower Bengal as in Upper India, but the earliest indications appeared at Barrackpur and Berhampur : outbursts occurred in other parts of the Lower Provinces, and, during the whole two years, Halliday's vigilance and administrative capacity were severely tried and never failed. He was held in high estimation by Lord Dalhousie, and had great influence with Lord Canning, who said of him, after the mutiny, that for many months he had been the right hand of the Government."" Halliday recorded a Minute on "" The Mutinies as they affected the Lower Provinces under the Government of Bengal."" He had also to deal with the new conditions attending the creation of Bengal into a separate Lieutenant-Governorship, and arising from the great Education despatch of 1854 from England, important Rent and Revenue legislation, and the introduction of Railways. He received the thanks of Parliament for his mutiny services: was made K.C.B. in i860: and was Member of the Council of India from 1868 to 1886 : he died Oct. 22, 1901. Of lofty stature and splendid physique, Halliday appeared to be the embodiment of great power, an impression which was strengthened by whatever he said, or wrote. |
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