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Frederic Thesiger, 1st Viscount Chelmsford

Frederic Thesiger, 1st Viscount Chelmsford

Infobox_Officeholder
honorific-prefix =The Right Honourable

name = The Viscount Chelmsford
honorific-suffix =
GCSI, GCMG, GCIE, GBE, PC


imagesize = 200 px
order1 = Viceroy of India
term_start1 = 4 April, 1916
term_end1 = 2 April, 1921
monarch1 = George V
primeminister1 = H.H. Asquith
David Lloyd George
predecessor1 = The Lord Hardinge of Penshurst
successor1 = The Earl of Reading
order2 = First Lord of the Admiralty
term_start2 = 28 January, 1924
term_end2 = 7 November, 1924
monarch2 = George V
primeminister2 = Ramsay Macdonald
predecessor2 = Leo Amery
successor2 = William Bridgeman
birth_date = 12 August, 1868
birth_place = London, England
death_date = 1 April, 1933
death_place = London, England
nationality = British
party = Conservative
religion = Anglican
alma_mater = Magdalen College, Oxford
profession = Politician
spouse =

Frederic John Napier Thesiger, 1st Viscount Chelmsford, GCSI, GCMG, GCIE, GBE, PC (12 August 1868 - 1 April 1933) was a British statesman who served as Viceroy of India from 1916 to 1921.

Thesiger was the son of the 2nd Baron Chelmsford. Educated at Magdalen College, Oxford, Thesiger was elected to a Fellowship at All Souls College. He served on the London County Council. Succeeding his father in 1905 to become 3rd Baron, Chelmsford was appointed Governor of Queensland (1905 to 1909), and then became Governor of New South Wales (1909 to 1913). He left Australia that year to command a regiment in India. Rising quickly, he became Viceroy in 1916, succeeding Lord Hardinge.

His viceregency was a time of unrest in India, seeing the implementation of the Montagu-Chelmsford reforms (named for the Viceroy and Edwin Samuel Montagu, the Secretary of State for India), which gave greater authority to local Indian representative bodies, but also violent resistance, culminating in the implementation of martial law and the Amritsar Massacre of 1919. This led the Indian National Congress to boycott the first regional elections in 1920, and Chelmsford returned home under a cloud, generally accused of incompetence, which did not prevent him from being raised to the dignity of Viscount.

In 1924, despite being a life-long Conservative, Chelmsford was persuaded to join the Labour government of Ramsay MacDonald in 1924 as First Lord of the Admiralty, though this was a technical post and he never joined the Party. After the fall of the government he retired from political life, devoting his later years to work on the Miners' Welfare Committee and to educational projects.


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* [http://www.houseofdavid.ca/Ind_uni.htm#gon1919 Bibliography]


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