Henry Bartle Edward Frere
Henry Bartle Edward Frere


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Henry Bartle Edward Frere 
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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.
18501859Chief Commissioner of Sind (India).
1857 Supressed Indian Mutiny in Sind.
18591862Member of Viceroys Council in Calcutta.
1859 C.B. (Companion of the Bath).
18621867Governor of Bombay.
18671877Member 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)
18771880Governor of Cape Colony, and High Commissioner of British South Africa.
December 1878 Precipitated Zulu War.
29 May 1884 Died.
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