Question

Sir John Shore was Governor General of India.

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Write some sentences about Sir John Shore what did he develope when he was Governor General of India?​

Answer 1

Question:-

• Write some sentences about Sir John Shore what did he develope when he was Governor General of India?

❖Answer:-

• Shore was appointed by the court of directors governor-general of India in succession to Cornwallis on 19 September 1792, and was created a baronet on 2 October following Edmund Burke protested vainly.

 

• In 1798 he was created Baron Teignmouth in the Peerage of Ireland.

• Shore embarked for India at the end of the month. On 10 March 1793 he arrived at Calcutta, where he remained without official employment or responsibility until the departure of Cornwallis.

• He succeeded to the government on 28 October 1793.

Answer 2

Sir John Shore:

⇒ Sir John Shore was the third Governor General of British India.

⇒ He succeeded Lord Cornwallis, and had his tenure from the time period of 1793 to 1798.

⇒ His tenure was mainly uneventful as he didn't tangle himself in wars and mutinies. He was partially responsible for the growth of the French army and the invasion of Indian rulers in certain British territories.

⇒ The only strict and serious action he did was to change the ruler of Awadh and for this service, the British government created the Baron Teignmouth. Hence, he was officially named John Shore, 1st Baron Teignmouth.

⇒ The Charter's Act of 1793 was officially passed under his reign.

⇒ He was a strong orientalist and succeeded Sir William Jones in the Asiatic Society of Bengal.

⇒ Thoughts on the Providence of God is a famous book written by him.

⇒ He was born in the year 1751 and died in 1834.