1ST See also:BARON See also:JOHN See also:SHORE See also:TEIGNMOUTH (1751-1834)
, See also:governor-See also:general of See also:India, was See also:born on the 8th of See also:October 1751, the 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 See also:Shore, a See also:supercargo in the service of the
See also:East India See also:Company
.
He was educated at See also:Harrow, and went out to India as a writer in the See also:Bengal See also:Civil Service in 1769
.
He became a member of the Supreme See also:Council (1787-89), in which capacity he assisted See also:Lord See also:Cornwallis in introducing many reforms, but did not approve his permanent See also:settlement of Bengal
.
On the retirement of Cornwallis, he was appointed governor-general (1793-98), adopting a policy of non-interference, but deposed See also:Wazir See also:Ali, for whom he substituted Saadat Ali as See also:nawab of Oudh
.
His See also:term 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 was also signalized by a See also:mutiny of the See also:officers of the See also:Indian See also:army, which he met with concessions
.
He was created a See also:baronet in 1792, and See also:Baron See also:Teignmouth in the See also:peerage of See also:Ireland in 1798
.
On his retirement from India he was appointed member of the See also:board of See also:control (1807-28), and was for many years See also:president of the See also:British and See also:Foreign See also:Bible Society
.
He died on the ,4th of See also:February 1834
.
See See also:Memoirs of Lord Teignmouth, by his son (1843)
.
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