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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 |
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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). | |
REFERENCES TO Henry Hardinge, first viscount Hardinge: Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 26 March 1828 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Found 1:
¶ 1 Sydney Smith to Lady Grey, 22 April 1844 in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a
Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855) Found 1:
¶ 2 Lord Brougham to Samuel Rogers, [2 July 1850] in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Found 1:
¶ 3 Morgan, Lady (Sydney), 1783-1859, Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second
Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863) Chapter XXIV Found 1:
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