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| NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Hardinge, Henry Hardinge, Viscount, 1785-1856 NRA: Hardinge Henry (1785-1856) 1st Viscount Hardinge Field Marshal DNB: Hardinge, Henry, first Viscount Hardinge of Lahore (1785-1856), army officer and governor-general of India LBT ID: LdHardi1 VIAF ID: 76334676 LOC ID: n86023908 | B/BAP: 1785-03-30 DIED: 1856-09-24 |
| SOURCES: DNB; Virtual International Authority File; thePeerage.com; LOC Name Authority File | |
After a distinguished career in the Napoleonic wars (in which he lost his left hand) he
served as Tory MP for Durham (1820-30), Newport (1830-34), and Launceston (1834-44); he was
secretary-at-war (1838-30) and governor-general of India (1844-48). | |
CORRESPONDENCE OF Henry Hardinge, first viscount Hardinge: Viscount Hardinge to Sir Thomas Charles Morgan, 10 February 1835 in Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second
Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863) | |
