George Hilario Barlow

George Hilario Barlow, 1st Baronet

Sir George Hilario Barlow, 1st Baronet , GCB (* 1762 - February 1847 in Farnham) was a British politician and from 1805 to 1807 Governor General of Fort William .

Life

Barlow was assigned to the Bengal Civil Service in 1778 and reached British India in 1779. He became assistant to the tax collector at Gaya . 1796 appointed him Shore to Chief Secretary to Government . In 1801 he became a member of the Supreme Council .

In 1802 he was appointed acting governor general, in 1803 Barlow was bestowed the hereditary British title Baronet , of Fort William in Bengal in the East Indies. In 1805 Barlow succeeded the late Charles Cornwallis . In 1807 he was replaced by Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 1st Earl of Minto , because the government did not support his appointment as Governor General.

Shortly afterwards he became governor of Madras . In this office he clashed with civil servants and the military. He came into conflict with the army in particular when he cut monthly payments to commanding officers on instructions from London . Lieutenant Colonel Munro, the Quartermaster General , was blamed and deposed by Lieutenant General Hay Macdowall . Barlow removed Macdowall and other senior officers and placed them under arrest. Thereupon there was a mutiny, in the course of which there was fighting. Barlow didn't give in, and when Minto took his side, the officers had to give in. Some lost their posts while others got away with light penalties. In 1812 he returned to Great Britain.

Barlow died in Farnham in February 1847. He was the younger brother of Admiral Robert Barlow.

literature

• Barlow, Sir George Hilaro . In: Encyclopædia Britannica . 11th edition. tape 3 : Austria - Bisectrix . London 1910, p. 406 (English, full text [ Wikisource ]).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ No. 15595, p. 740. In: The London Gazette , June 21, 1803.