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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 | 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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A List of eminent persons who served in British India, together with short biographical notes of each
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