Eminent Persons, Biographies Reprinted from the Times Volume 5 by Books Group
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Author: Books Group
Number of Pages: 112 pages
Published Date: 20 May 2012
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Publication Country: United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781236303769
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 Excerpt: ...Hon. Edward Villiers, and niece of the late Earl of Clarendon, and in 1873, on his father's death, he succeeded to the title as the second Baron Lytton. He had at that time reached the rank of First Secretary of Embassy, and, as his private fortune was not sufficient to satisfy his somewhat expensive tastes, he determined to remain in the Diplomatic Service. His diplomatic career, however, was soon to be interrupted. In January 1876 Mr. Disraeli looked for a Viceroy of India after his own heart, who would pursue con amore an energetic, forward policy in an Imperialistic spirit, with a certain pyrotechnic display for the purpose of obtaining popular applause. For such a policy Lord Lytton seemed to him an admirable instrument. If the author of Tancred had become a successful Prime Minister of England, why should not Owen Meredith, with his lively imagination and his keen sympathy with the pomp and pageantry of the gorgeous East, make a successful Viceroy of India t In any case the experiment seemed to be worth making, and the cautious, hard-working, methodical Lord Northbrook was replaced by the showy young diplomatist and litterateur. The significance of this change soon became apparent. Before the new Viceroy had been a year in India--on 1st January 1877--a magnificent durbar, to which all the princes and notables of India had been invited, was held at Delhi, and there, with a ceremonious pomp surpassing probably anything that had ever taken place in the days of the Mogul Emperors, Queen Victoria was proclaimed Empress of India. But it was not merely in matters of ceremonial display that the new regime manifested itself. The prestige of British rule in India was to be raised not only by the creation of the Imperial title, but also by the extension of Briti...
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