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EARL OF GEORGE EDEN AUCKLAND (1784-1849)

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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 893 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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EARL OF See also:GEORGE See also:EDEN See also:AUCKLAND (1784-1849)  , See also:English statesman, was the second son of the 1st See also:Baron See also:Auckland . He completed his See also:education at See also:Oxford, and was admitted to the See also:bar in 1809 . His See also:elder See also:brother was drowned in the See also:Thames in the following See also:year ; and in 1814, on the See also:death of his See also:father, he took his seat in the See also:House of Lords as Baron Auckland . He supported the Reform party steadily by his See also:vote, and in 183o was made See also:president of the See also:Board of See also:Trade and See also:master of the See also:Mint . In 1834 he held See also:office for a few months as first See also:lord of the See also:admiralty, and in 1835 he was appointed See also:governor-See also:general of See also:India . He proved himself to be a painstaking and laborious legislator, and devoted himself specially to the improvement of native See also:schools, and the expansion of the commercial See also:industry of the nation committed to his care . These useful labours were interrupted in 1838 by complications in See also:Afghanistan, which excited the fears not only of the Anglo-See also:Indian See also:government but of the See also:home authorities . Lord Auckland resolved to enter upon a See also:war, and on the 1st of See also:October 1838 published at See also:Simla his famous manifesto dethroning Dost Mahommed . The See also:early operations were crowned with success, and the governor-general received the See also:title of See also:earl of Auckland . But reverses followed quickly, and in the ensuing See also:campaigns the See also:British troops suffered the most severe disasters . Lord Auckland had the See also:double See also:mortification of seeing his policy a See also:complete failure and of being superseded before his errors could be rectified . In the autumn of 1841 he was succeeded in office by Lord See also:Ellenborough, and returned to See also:England in the following year .

In 1846 he was made first lord of the admiralty, which office he held until his death, on the 1st of See also:

January 1849 . He died unmarried, and the earldom became See also:extinct, the See also:barony (see below) passing to his brother See also:Robert . See S . J . Trotter, The Earl of Auckland (" Rulers of India " See also:series), 1893 .

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