Glenelg Charles Grant Baron 1778-1866 Born In Kidderpore India

Educated at Magdalen College, Cambridge, England, and called to the bar

at Lincoln's Inn, 1807. Member of the British House of Commons,

1811-1835. Appointed lord of the treasury, 1813; chief secretary for

Ireland and a member of the Privy Council, 1819; vice-president of the

Board of Trade and treasurer of the navy, 1823; president of the Board

of Control, 1830-1834, and colonial secretary, 1835. Created Baron

Glenelg, 1835. Resigned the secretaryship, 1839, and made land tax

commissioner. Died in Cannes. =Index=: (Wilmot era) His incompetence and

procrastination, 42; on casual and territorial revenues of New

Brunswick, 61-62. (Lord Sydenham era) President of Board of Trade, 16; resigns, 16;

unequal to duties of colonial office, 57. (Baldwin / La Fontaine / Hincks era) Appointment of Head as

governor, 36; Head's letter to, 41. (Joseph Howe era) Instructs Sir Colin Campbell to

grant a measure of responsible government to Nova Scotia, 44-45; Joseph

Howe's letter to, on ocean steamship service, 232. (William Lyon Mackenzie era) Opposes

responsible government, 20; on colonial self-government, 73; refers

report of the Committee on Grievances to the king, 263; his reply to

report, 280; on Executive Councils, 302; schooled by Head, 304; Head

disobeys his orders, 307; on non-elective Legislative Council, 324.