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1ST BARON JOHN SHORE TEIGNMOUTH (1751...

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 508 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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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 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 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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