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See also:METCALFE, . See also:CHARLES See also:THEOPHILUS METCALFE, See also:BARON (1785–1846), See also:Indian and colonial See also:administrator, was See also:born at See also:Calcutta on the 3oth of See also:January 1785; he was the second son of See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas Theophilus Metcalfe, then a See also:major in the See also:Bengal See also:army, who afterwards became a director of the See also:East See also:India See also:Company, and was created a See also:baronet in 1802. Having been educated at See also:Eton, he in 1800 sailed for India as a writer in the service of the Company. After studying See also:Oriental See also:languages as the first student at See also:Lord See also:Wellesley's See also:College of Fort See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William, he, at the See also:age of nineteen, was appointed See also:political assistant to See also:General See also:Lake, who was then conducting the final See also:campaign of the Mabratta See also:war against See also:Holkar. In 18o8 he was selected by Lord See also:Minto for the responsible See also:post of See also:envoy to the See also:court of Ranjit Singh at See also:Lahore; See also:lyre, on the 25th of See also:April 1809, he concluded the important treaty securing the See also:independence of the See also:Sikh : states between the See also:Sutlej and the See also:Jumna. Four years afterwards he was made See also:resident at See also:Delhi, and in 1819 he received from Lord See also:Hastings the See also:appointment of secretary in the See also:secret and political See also:department. From 1820 to 1825 See also:Sir Charles (who succeeded his See also:brother in the baronetcy in 1822) was resident at the court of the . See also:nizam, and afterwards was summoned in an emergency to his former post at Delhi. In 1827 he obtained a. seat in the supreme See also:council, and in See also:March 1835, after he had acted as the first See also:governor of the proposed new See also:presidency of See also:Agra, he provisionally succeeded Lord William See also:Bentinck in the governor-generalship. During his brief See also:tenure of See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office (it lasted only for one . See also:year) he carried out several important See also:measures, including that for the liberation of the See also:press, which, while almost universally popular, complicated his relatipns with the See also:directors at See also:home to such an extent that he resigned the service of the Company in 1838. In the following year he was appointed by the See also:Melbourne See also:administration to the governor-See also:ship of See also:Jamaica, where the difficulties created by the See also:recent passing of the See also:Negro Emancipation See also:Act had called for a high degree of tact and ability. Sir Charles Metcalfe's success in this delicate position; was very marked, but unfortunately his See also:health compelled his resignation and return to See also:England in 1842. Six months afterwards he was appointed by the See also:Peel See also:ministry to the governor-generalship of See also:Canada, and his success in carrying out the policy of the home See also:government was rewarded with a
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See also:peerage shortly after his return in 1845. He died at Malshanger, near See also:Basingstoke, on the 5th of See also:September 1846.
See J. W. See also:Kaye's See also:Life and See also:Correspondence of Charles Lord Metcalfe (See also:London, 1854).
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