Charles John Canning
Public servant . Governor-general of India, 1855–62; first viceroy, 1858–62. In office during the Indian Mutiny and negotiated the transfer of the government of India from the East India Company to the Crown in 1858. Created earl, 1859.
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See also Correspondence, volume(s): 6,8