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Henry Bartle Edward Frere | |
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Date (from) | (Date to) | Event |
29 March 1815 | | Born. |
1834 | | Appointed Indian Civil Service. |
1835 | | Assistant to the collector at Poona. |
1842 | | Private secretary to Sir George Arthur, Governor of Bombay. |
10 October 1844 | | Married Catherine Arthur, second daughter of the governor. |
1850 | 1859 | Chief Commissioner of Sind (India). |
1857 | | Supressed Indian Mutiny in Sind. |
1859 | 1862 | Member of Viceroys Council in Calcutta. |
1859 | | C.B. (Companion of the Bath). |
1862 | 1867 | Governor of Bombay. |
1867 | 1877 | Member of Indian Council. |
1867 | | D.C.L. (Doctor of Civic Law), Oxford. |
1867 | | G.C.S.I. (Knight Grand Commander of the Star of India) |
1872 | | President of the Asiatic Society. |
1873 | | President of Geographical Society. |
1874 | | L.L.D. (Doctor of Laws), Cambridge. |
24 May 1876 | | Created Baron Frere, and G.C.B. (Knight Grand Cross of the Bath) |
1877 | 1880 | Governor of Cape Colony, and High Commissioner of British South Africa. |
December 1878 | | Precipitated Zulu War. |
29 May 1884 | | Died. |
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