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See also:COLVIN, See also:JOHN See also:- RUSSELL (FAMILY)
- RUSSELL, ISRAEL COOK (1852- )
- RUSSELL, JOHN (1745-1806)
- RUSSELL, JOHN (d. 1494)
- RUSSELL, JOHN RUSSELL, 1ST EARL (1792-1878)
- RUSSELL, JOHN SCOTT (1808–1882)
- RUSSELL, LORD WILLIAM (1639–1683)
- RUSSELL, SIR WILLIAM HOWARD
- RUSSELL, THOMAS (1762-1788)
- RUSSELL, WILLIAM CLARK (1844– )
RUSSELL (1807—1857) , See also:lieutenant-See also:governor of the See also:North-See also:West Provinces of See also:India during the See also:mutiny of 1857, belonged to an Anglo-See also:Indian See also:family of Scottish descent, and was See also:born in See also:Calcutta on the 29th of May 1807. Passing through Haileybury he entered the service of the See also:East India See also:Company in 1826. In 1836 he became private secretary to See also:Lord See also:Auckland, and his See also:influence over the See also:viceroy has been held partly responsible for the first Afghan See also:war of 1837; but it has since been shown that Lord Auckland's policy was dictated by the See also:secret See also:committee of the company at See also:home. In 1853 Mr Colvin wasappointed lieutenant-governor of the North-West Provinces by Lord See also:Dalhousie. On the outbreak of the mutiny in 1857 he had with him at See also:Agra only a weak See also:British See also:regiment and a native See also:battery, too small a force to make See also:head against the mutineers; and a See also:proclamation which he issued to the natives was censured at the See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time for its clemency, but it followed the same lines as those adopted by See also:Sir See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry See also:- LAWRENCE
- LAWRENCE (LAURENTIUS, LORENZO), ST
- LAWRENCE, AMOS (1786—1852)
- LAWRENCE, AMOS ADAMS (1814–1886)
- LAWRENCE, GEORGE ALFRED (1827–1876)
- LAWRENCE, JOHN LAIRD MAIR LAWRENCE, 1ST BARON (1811-1879)
- LAWRENCE, SIR HENRY MONTGOMERY (1806–1857)
- LAWRENCE, SIR THOMAS (1769–1830)
- LAWRENCE, STRINGER (1697–1775)
Lawrence and subsequently followed by Lord See also:Canning. Exhausted by anxiety and misrepresentation he died on the 9th of See also:September, his See also:death shortly preceding the fall of See also:Delhi.
His son, Six AUCKLAND COLVIN (18,38—1908), followed him in a distinguished career in the same service, from 1858 to 1879. He was See also:comptroller-See also:general in See also:Egypt (188o to 1882), and See also:financial adviser to the See also:khedive (1883 to 1887), and from 1883 till 1892 was back again in India, first as financial member of See also:council, and then, from 1887, as lieutenant-governor of the North-West Provinces and Oudh. He was created K.C.M.G. in 1881, and K.C.S.I. in 1892, when he retired. He published The Making of See also:Modern Egypt in 1906, and a See also:biography of his See also:father, in the " Rulers of India " See also:series, in 1895. He died at See also:Surbiton on the 24th of See also:March 1908.
End of Article: COLVIN, JOHN RUSSELL (1807—1857)
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