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| Date transcribed | 2011-05-01 | | 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 | Lawrence | | | First Name(s) | John Laird Mair | | | Titles | First Baron | | | Year of Birth | 1811 | | | Year of Death | 1879 | | | Entry | I.C.S. : Governor-General : sixth son of Lt-Colonel Alexander Lawrence : brother of Sir George (q.v.) and Sir Henry (q.v.) : born March 4, 1811 : educated at Bristol, Foyle College, Londonderry. Wraxall Hall, Haileybury : reached Calcutta in the Civil Service in Feb. 1830 : to Delhi and its neighbourhood as Assistant and as District Officer for 8 years, and again, 1843-6 : noticed by Lord Hardinge at end of 1845 : provided efficient transport before Sobraon : in 1846 made Commissioner of the Trans-Satlaj Jalandhar Doab : acted as Resident at Lahore : suppressed the Kangra rebellion : after the Panjab campaign, and the annexation of the Panjab in 1849, became a Member of the Board of Administration, with his brother Henry and Mr. C. G. Mansel : selected in 1853 by Lord Dalhousie to be Chief Commissioner of the Panjab, the Board being broken up : his differences of opinion from his brother, on public questions, were radical and serious : negotiated a treaty with the Amir of Afghanistan in 1855 : K.C.B., 1856 made another agreement with Dost Muhammad in 1857 : in the mutiny he saved the Panjab, and, by sending the movable column and all available forces down to Delhi for its siege and capture, worked for the eventual suppression of the mutiny : at one time contemplated the abandonment of Peshawar : first Lieutenant-Governor of the Panjab from Jan. 1, 1859 : G.C.B. : Baronet : P.C. : K.C.S.I. : appointed by the Crown, in Sep. 1858, an original member of the new Council of India : D.C.L. : LL.D. : refused the Governorship of Bombay : Governor-General and Viceroy of India, Jan. 12, 1864, to Jan. 12, 1869 : he had to deal with the Bhutan war, and the Orissa famine : was strong in his policy of non-interference with Afghan politics : his policy was described as ""masterly inactivity"" : he recognized Shir Ali as de facto Amir : paid much attention to sanitation, railways, irrigation : enforced strict economy : settled the Oudh land strict economy : settled the Oudh land question : was the first Governor-General to take the whole Government to Simla : he was vigorous and prompt in action, cautious, masterful, laborious, sincerely religious : after retirement, he was made Baron Lawrence of the Panjab and of Grateley : was, 1870-3, Chairman of the London School Board, and Chairman of the Committee formed to oppose the policy of the Afghan war of 1878-9 : died June 27, 1879 : buried in Westminster Abbey : statues erected to him in Calcutta and London. |
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