RARE \"1st Earl of Northbrook\" Thomas Baring Hand Written Letter For Sale

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RARE \"1st Earl of Northbrook\" Thomas Baring Hand Written Letter:
$349.99

Up for sale a RARE "1st Earl of Northbrook" Thomas Baring Hand Written 2 Page Letter Dated 1903. 

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Thomas

George Baring, 1st Earl of 1826 – 15 November 1904) was a 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. He served as First Lord

of the Admiralty between 1880 and 1885. Northbrook was the

eldest son of Francis

Baring, 1st Baron Northbrook, by his first wife Jane, daughter of

the Sir George Grey, 1st

Baronet. He was educated at Twyford School and Christ Church, Oxford, where he graduated with honours in 1846. Northbrook

entered upon a political career, and was successively private of Trade), Sir George Grey (Home

Office), and Sir Charles Wood (India

Office and then Admiralty to 1857). In 1847 he served on the committee of

the British Relief Association.

In 1857, he was returned to the House of Commons for Penryn and Falmouth, which he represented until becoming a

peer on the death of his father in 1866. He served under Lord

Palmerston as Civil 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 William Ewart Gladstone acceded

to power in 1868, Baring was again appointed Under-Secretary of State for War,

and this office he held until February 1872, when he was appointed Viceroy of India. In

January 1876, however, he resigned. He had recommended the conclusion of

arrangements with Sher Ali Khan which,

as has since been admitted,[ would have prevented the Second Afghan War; but his policy was overruled by the 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 British garrison, and 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 prime minister; and he then ceased to

take a prominent part in political life.

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