Henry Whitelock Torrens (20 May 1806 – 16 August 1852), son of Major-General Henry Torrens, was born on 20 May 1806. He received his B.A. at Christ Church, Oxford (where he was a president of the United Debating Society[1]), and entered the Inner Temple. After a short service under the Foreign Office, he obtained a writership from the Court of Directors of the East India Company and arrived in India in November 1828 and held various appointments at Meerut. In 1835 he joined the Secretariat, in which he served in several departments under Sir William Hay Macnaghten. In 1839 he assisted James Hume in the editing of the Eastern Star, a weekly paper, which became a daily paper called the Calcutta Star. He was secretary (1840–1846) and a Vice-President (1843–1845) to the Asiatic Society of Bengal (now the Asiatic Society). In December 1846, he was appointed Agent to the Governor-General at Murshidabad. Here in his endeavours to improve the Nizamat administration, his relations with the Nawab Nizam and his officials became greatly strained.[2]
He was a clever essayist as well as a journalist and scholar, and his scattered papers were deservedly collected and published at Calcutta in 1854.[3]
Torrens died of dysentery at Calcutta while on a visit to the Governor-General on 16 August 1852 and was buried in the Lower Circular Road Cemetery.
^Hollis, Christopher (1965). The Oxford Union. Evans.
^Dictionary of Indian Biography; by C. E. Buckland, p. 426
^The Cambridge History of English Literature, Volume 14 by A. W. Ward, page 337.
and 10 Related for: Henry Whitelock Torrens information
HenryWhitelockTorrens (20 May 1806 – 16 August 1852), son of Major-General HenryTorrens, was born on 20 May 1806. He received his B.A. at Christ Church...
was born in Meerut, India, the son of HenryWhitelockTorrens and Eliza Mary Roberts and died in London. Torrens was commissioned as a second Lieutenant...
the Rev. Robert Harrington Torrens, MA, and descendant of the lawyer and colonial official HenryWhitelockTorrens, Torrens was born in Bromley, Kent,...
Whitelock Torrens (1806–1852), son of Major HenryTorrens Adam Whitelock (born 1987), New Zealand rugby union footballer Dorothy Whitelock (1901–1982)...
Michael Madhusudan Dutt (died 1873) Jules Henri Jean Schaumburg HenryWhitelockTorrens (died 1852) John Elliot Drinkwater Bethune (died 1851) Neil O'Brien...
use: the Torrens Building in Victoria Square as the Adelaide campus for Carnegie Mellon University, University College London, and Torrens University;...
registration and transfer named Torrens title after its designer and promoter, South Australian parliamentarian Robert Torrens. Women were granted the vote...
(1701–1734) Henry Bulwer, 31 years (1837–1868) William Allen, 31 years (1900–1931) Richard Winwood, 30 years (1648–1679) Sir William Whitelock, 30 years...
now known as Kingscote on Kangaroo Island. 1836: Site spanning the River Torrens is chosen for Adelaide by Colonel William Light in December 1836. Governor...
Spencer 1809–1818: Gen. Sir George Beckwith, GCB 1818–1822: Maj-Gen. Sir HenryTorrens, KCB 1822–1828: F.M. Sir John Byng, 1st Earl of Strafford, GCB, GCH...
Global Information