The viscount canning

sir robert napier

sir john strachey the lord irwin sir henry hardinge

viscount

Born

Died

Nationality

Political party

Conservative Peelite

In 1836 he entered parliament, being returned as member for the town of Warwick in the Conservative interest. He did not, however, sit long in the House of Commons; for, on the death of his mother in 1837, he succeeded to the peerage which had been t in the House of Lords. His first official appointment was that of Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, in the administration formed by Sir Robert Peel in 1841, his chief being the Earl of Aberdeen. Sir Robert napier

Born

6 December 1810 Ceylon

Died

14 January 1890 (aged 79) London, England

Early life
Napier was the son of Major Charles Frederick Napier, who was wounded at the storming of Meester Cornelis (now Jatinegara) in Java on (26 August 1810) and died some months later. Robert was born in Ceylon on 6 December 1810.[1] He was educated at Addiscombe Military Academy from which he joined the Bengal Engineers at the age of 18, arriving in India in November 1828.[1] [edit]Indian

service

Napier was employed in the irrigation works of the Public Works Department for some years, before being promoted to Captain in January 1841, when he was appointed to Sirhind.[1] sir john strachey Sir John Strachey GCSI, CIE (5 June 1823 19 December 1907), British Indian civilian, fifth son of Edward Strachey, second son of Sir Henry Strachey, 1st Baronet, was born in London, England. After passing through the East India Company College, Strachey entered the Bengal civil service in 1842, and served in the NorthWestern Provinces, occupying many important positions. He married Katherine Batten, daughter of Joseph Batten the Principal of the East India Company College, on 9 October 1856,[1] and they had eight children. In 1861, Lord Canning appointed him president of a commission to investigate the great cholera epidemic of that year. In 1862 he became judicial commissioner in the Central Provinces. In 1864, after the report of the royal commission on the sanitary condition of the army, a permanent sanitary commission was established in India, with Strachey as president. In 1866, he became Chief Commissioner of Oudh, having been chosen by Lord Lawrence to remedy as far as possible the injustice done after the Indian rebellion of 1857 by the confiscation of the rights of tenants and small proprietors of land, maintaining at the same time the privileges of the Talukdars of great landlords. As member of the legislative council he introduced several bills for that purpose, which, with the full approval of the Talukdars, passed into law.

THE LORD IRWIN

Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax, KG, OM, GCSI, GCMG, GCIE, PC (16 April 1881-23 December 1959), known as The Lord Irwin from 1925 until 1934 and as The Viscount Halifax from 1934 until 1944, the British Conservative politician

Henry Hardinge
Born 30 March 1785 Wrotham, Kent, England

Died

24 September 1856 Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England

Army career
Born the son of the Reverend Henry Hardinge, Rector of Stanhope,[1] and Frances Hardinge (ne Best) and educated at Durham School, Hardinge entered the British Army on 23 July 1799 as an ensign in the Queen's Rangers,[2] a corps then stationed in Upper Canada.[3] He was promoted to lieutenant by purchase in the 4th Regiment of Foot on 27 March 1802[4] and transferred to the 1st Regiment of Foot on 11 July 1803[5] before becoming a captain of a company by purchase in the 57th Regiment of Foot on 21 April 1804.[6] In February 1806 he was sent to the newly-formed Staff College at High Wycombe.[7]