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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  Iddesleigh    
First Name(s)  Stafford Henry Northcote    
Year of Birth  1818    
Year of Death  1887    
Entry  Born Oct. 27, 181 8 : son of Henry Stafford Northcote : educated at Brighton, Eton, Balliol College, Oxford : Scholar : called to the bar in 1847 from the Inner Temple : was Private Secretary to Mr. Gladstone : Legal Secretary to the Board of Trade : succeeded as Baronet in 1851 : was Commissioner to inquire into the civil establishments of the Crown, 1853-4 : became M.P. for Dudley, 1855 ; for Stamford, 1858-66 ; for N. Devon, 1866-85, when he was made a Peer. From 1855 his life was devoted to English politics on the Conservative side. He was connected with India, as Secretary of State, from March 9, 1867, to Dec. 10, 1868 : he had to deal with the questions of the Abyssinian expedition, the Orissa famine, Afghanistan, Mysore and financial decentralization : in later years, 1878-9, he spoke in favour of the later portion of the second Afghan war: died Jan. 11, 1887     
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