Charles Metcalfe, 1st Baron Metcalfe
Governor of Agra | |
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| In office 14 November 1834 – 20 March 1835 | |
| Governor General | Lord William Bentinck |
| Preceded by | Office created |
| Succeeded by | William Blunt |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 30 January 1785 Calcutta, Bengal Presidency |
| Died | 5 September 1846 (aged 61) Malshanger, Oakley, Hampshire |
Charles Theophilus Metcalfe, 1st Baron Metcalfe,
Early life and background
Metcalfe was born on 30 January 1785 in Lecture House, Calcutta then part of the Bengal Presidency.
He was the second son of
Metcalfe's elder sister was Emily Theophila, later becoming the
, also went on to achieve distinction as a civil servant with the East India Company.Education
Metcalfe spent four years at Eton College in Berkshire, before arriving in Bengal on 1 January 1801, a month before his sixteenth birthday.[8] He then studied Oriental languages as the first student at Lord Wellesley's Fort William College.
India
Early career
At the age of nineteen, Metcalfe was appointed political assistant to General Lake, who was then conducting the final campaign of the Second Anglo-Maratha War against Yashwantrao Holkar.[2]
In 1808 he was selected by
His first tenure as Resident at
Agra
On 14 November 1834 Metcalfe was posted as
Acting Governor-General
In 1827 he obtained a seat in the supreme council, and in March 1835, after he had acted as the first governor of the proposed new presidency of
North-Western Provinces
Metcalfe was
In 1838 he retired from service with the East India Company and settled in England.[8]Jamaica
In 1839, Metcalfe accepted an appointment by the Second Melbourne ministry to the governorship of Jamaica, where labour difficulties created by the recent passing of the Slavery Abolition Act called for a high degree of tact and ability.[2] Metcalfe's administration was successful in addressing the complaints of both labourers and their employers and bringing a greater sense of unity amongst the different factions. Ill health hastened his resignation and on 24 May 1842 he left Jamaica for England.[8]
Canada
Six months afterwards he was appointed by the
Final years
Metcalfe's success in Canada carrying out the policy of the home government was rewarded with a
Personal life
When in Lahore, Metcalfe began a relationship with a
Honorific eponyms
References
- doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/18617. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- ^ a b c d e f One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Metcalfe, Charles Theophilus Metcalfe, Baron". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 18 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 257–258.
- ^ Sir Thomas Theophilus Metcalfe, 1st Baronet (1745–1813). British Library.
- ^ Prints & Drawings full record display for shelfmark P2204 British Library.
- ^ Lady Susannah Selina Sophia Metcalfe (nee Debonnaire) (1756–1815) British Library.
- ^ Lady Susannah Selina Sophia Metcalfe (1756–1815). Married. British Library.
- ^ Emily Theophila, Viscountess Ashbrook (1791–1885) British Library.
- ^ a b c d e Hall, D. G. "Sir Charles Metcalfe: Governor of Jamaica, Sept., 1839 to May, 1842". Caribbean Quarterly, vol. 3, no. 2, 1953, pp. 90–100. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/40652570. Accessed 14 February 2021.
- ^ a b The India list and India Office list for 1905 By Great Britain, India Office #130
- ^ "No. 19310". The London Gazette. 25 September 1835. p. 1791.
- ^ "Provinces of British India".
- ^ "No. 20433". The London Gazette. 17 January 1845. p. 137.
- ^ Sita Anantha Raman 2009 Women in India: a social and cultural history, volume 2. Praeger, p. 87.
Further reading
- Genealogy of Metcalfes
- J. W. Kaye, Life and Correspondence of Charles Lord Metcalfe (London, 1854)
- E. Thompson, The life of Charles, Lord Metcalfe (London, 1937).
- Lee, Sidney, ed. (1894). . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 37. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
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