Northbrook, Thomas George Baring, 1st earl of, Viscount Baring Of Lee, Baron Northbrook Of Stratton

Northbrook, Thomas George Baring, 1st earl of, Viscount Baring Of Lee, Baron Northbrook Of Stratton

▪ British statesman
born Jan. 22, 1826, London
died Nov. 15, 1904, Stratton Park, Hampshire, Eng.

      British statesman who served as viceroy of India.

      The son of Sir Francis Baring, afterward 1st Baron Northbrook, he studied at Christ Church, Oxford. He was private secretary to several officials and became Liberal member of Parliament for Falmouth and Penryn (1857–66). He was a junior lord of the Admiralty (1857–58) and under secretary for India (1859–61; 1868–72) and for war (1861–66).

      After the assassination of Lord Mayo, viceroy of India, in 1872, Prime Minister Gladstone appointed Baring to succeed him. Baring's general policy was to lighten taxes, reduce legislation, and give the land rest. A believer in free trade, he abolished most export duties and reduced import duties. In the Bengal famine of 1874 he sanctioned the construction of the Sone Canal and North Bengal railway as relief works. Repeatedly in disagreement with the secretary of state for India, Lord Salisbury, over matters of policy, Baring resigned in 1876. He was made earl of Northbrook in 1876 and served as first lord of the Admiralty (1880–85), during which time he was sent on a special mission to Egypt (August–November 1884) to inquire into financial problems. He parted decisively from Gladstone on the Irish question in 1886 and thereafter defended the union against Home Rule.

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