1ST

BARON

See also:

• JOHN
• JOHN (1167–1216)
• JOHN (1290-c. 1320)
• JOHN (1296-1346)
• JOHN (1371–1419)
• JOHN (1468-1532)
• JOHN (1801-1873)
• JOHN (Heb. llni')
• JOHN (ZAPOLYA) (1487-1540)
• JOHN, 4TH MARQUESS OF TWEEDDALE (c. 1695-1762)
• JOHN, DON (1545-1578)
• JOHN, DON (1629–1679)
• JOHN, GOSPEL OF ST
• JOHN, THE APOSTLE
• JOHN, THE EPISTLES OF
• JOHN, or HAYS (1513–1571)

JOHN

See also:

• SHORE

SHORE

See also:

• TEIGNMOUTH
• 1ST BARON JOHN SHORE TEIGNMOUTH (1751-1834)

TEIGNMOUTH (1751-1834)  , governor-general of India, was born on the 8th of October 1751, the son of Thomas Shore, a supercargo in the service of the East India Company . He was educated at Harrow, and went out to India as a writer in the Bengal 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 Ali, for whom he substituted Saadat Ali as nawab of Oudh . His term of office was also signalized by a mutiny of the officers of the Indian army, which he met with concessions . He was created a 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 British and Foreign Bible Society . He died on the ,4th of February 1834 . See Memoirs of Lord Teignmouth, by his son (1843) .