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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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1ST

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

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