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See also:STRACHEY, See also:SIR See also:JOHN (1823—1907) , See also:British See also:Indian civilian, fifth son of See also:Edward Strachey, was See also:born in See also:London on the 5th of See also:June 1823. After passing through Haileybury, Strachey entered the See also:Bengal See also:civil service in 1842, and served in the See also:North-Western Provinces, occupying many important positions. In 1861 See also:Lord See also:Canning appointed him See also:president of a See also:commission to investigate the See also:great See also:cholera epidemic of that See also:year. In 1862 he became judicial See also:commissioner in the Central Provinces. In 1864, after the See also:report of the royal commission on the 'sanitary See also:condition of the See also:army, a permanent sanitary commission was established in See also:India, with Strachey as president. In 1866 he became See also:chief commissioner of Oudh, having been chosen by Lord 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 to remedy as far as possible the injustice done after the See also:Mutiny by the See also:confiscation of the rights of tenants and small proprietors of See also:land, maintaining at the same 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 the privileges of the Talukdars of great landlords As member of the legislative See also:council he introduced several bills for that purpose, which, with the full approval of the Talukdars, passed into See also:law. In 1868 he became member of the See also:governor-See also:general's council, and on the assassination of Lord See also:Mayo in 1872 he acted temporarily as See also:viceroy. In 1874 he was appointed See also:lieutenant-governor of the North-Western Provinces. In 1876, by See also:request of Lord See also:Lytton and the secretary of See also:state, he consented to relinquish that 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, and returned to the governor-general's council as See also:financial See also:minister, which See also:post he retained until 1880. During this time, while Lord Lytton was viceroy, important reforms were carried out. The See also:measures for decentralizing financial See also:administration, initiated under Lord Mayo. were practically completed. The See also:salt duties were reduced, and the See also:system under which they were levied was altered, and that opprobrium of our administration, the inland customs See also:line, was abolished. The removal of all
import duties, including those on See also:English See also:cotton goods, and the See also:establishment of See also:complete See also:free See also:trade, was declared to be the fixed policy of the See also:government, and this was in great measure carried into effect before 188o, when Strachey See also:left India. The defective system on which the military accounts were kept occasioned a very erroneous estimate of the cost of the Afghan See also:War of 1878–80. For this See also:error Strachey was technically responsible, and it was made the occasion of a violent party attack which resulted in his resignation. The fact that almost the entire cost of the war was paid for out of See also:revenue is a conclusive See also:- PROOF (in M. Eng. preove, proeve, preve, &°c., from O. Fr . prueve, proeve, &c., mod. preuve, Late. Lat. proba, probate, to prove, to test the goodness of anything, probus, good)
proof of the state of financial prosperity to which India attained as the result of his administration. From 1885 to 1895 Strachey was a member of the council of the secretary of state for India. He was See also:joint author with Sir See also:Richard Strachey of The Finances and Public See also:Works of India (1882), besides See also:writing India (3rd ed., 1903), and See also:Hastings and the See also:Rohilla War (1892). He died on the loth of See also:December 1907.
End of Article: STRACHEY, SIR JOHN (1823—1907)
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