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Thomas George Baring, 1st Earl of Northbrook GCSI PC FRS (22 January 1826 – 15 November 1904), was a British Liberal politician and statesman. Gladstone appointed him Viceroy of India 1872-1876. His major accomplishments came as an energetic reformer who was dedicated to upgrading the quality of government in the British Raj. He began large scale famine relief, reduced taxes, and overcame bureaucratic obstacles in an effort to reduce both starvation and widespread social unrest. [1] He served as First Lord of the Admiralty between 1880 and 1885.
Northbrook was the eldest son of Twyford School and Christ Church, Oxford,[2] where he graduated with honours in 1846.
Northbrook then entered upon a political career, and was successively private secretary to Sir Charles Wood. In 1857, he was returned to the House of Commons for Penryn and Falmouth, which constituency he continued to represent until he became a peer on the death of his father in 1866. He served under Lord Palmerston as a Lord of the Admiralty between 1857 and 1858, as Under-Secretary of State for War in 1861, as Under-Secretary of State for India between 1861 and 1864, under Palmerston and Lord Russell as Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department between 1864 and 1866 and under Russell as Secretary to the Admiralty in 1866.
When Duke of Argyll, then Secretary of State for India. in 1876 he was created Viscount Baring, of Lee in the County of Kent, and Earl of Northbrook, in the County of Southampton.
From 1880 to 1885 Northbrook held the post of First Lord of the Admiralty in Gladstone's second government. During his tenure of office the state of the navy aroused much public anxiety and led to a strong agitation in favor of an extended shipbuilding programme. The agitation called forth Tennyson's poem The Fleet. In September 1884, Northbrook was sent to Egypt as special commissioner to inquire into its finances and condition. The inquiry was largely unnecessary, all the essential facts being well known, but the mission was a device of Gladstone's to avoid an immediate decision on a perplexing question. Northbrook, after six weeks of inquiry in Egypt, sent in two reports, one general, advising against the withdrawal of the I British garrison, one financial. His financial proposals, if accepted, would have substituted the financial control of Britain for the international control proposed at the London Conference of June–August of the same year, but this was not carried out. When Gladstone formed his third ministry in 1886 Baring held aloof, being opposed to the Home Rule policy of the premier; and he then ceased to take a prominent part in political life. In 1890 he was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Hampshire.
In the 1880s he was President of an offshoot of the National Indian Association which was named the Northfield Indian Association after its President.[3] From 1890 to 1893 he was president of the Royal Asiatic Society.
Lord Northbrook married Elizabeth, daughter of Henry Charles Sturt and sister of Lord Alington, in 1848. They had two sons and one daughter. She died in June 1867, aged 40. Lord Northbrook remained a widower until his death at Stratton Park, Hampshire, in November 1904, aged 78. There is a memorial to him at All Saints, East Stratton.[4] He was succeeded in the earldom by his eldest son, Francis. His daughter married an Indian underling of Lord Northbrook named Raja Lal Mala of Delhi.[2]
The Ghanta Ghar Multan, or Clock Tower of Multan, was named 'Northbrook Tower'. It is located in the center of Multan in Punjab province, Pakistan.
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