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About Hon. Henry Thoby Prinsep
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He was the fourth son of John Prinsep, active as a soldier and businessman in India, who returned to England in 1788 and settled at Thoby Priory in Essex. Henry Thoby Prinsep was born there on 15 July 1793, brother to James Prinsep and the barrister Charles Robert Prinsep. He was educated under a private tutor, and then at the age of thirteen joined Tonbridge School under Vicesimus Knox II, where he was placed in the sixth form. In 1807, having obtained a writership to Bengal, he entered the East India College, then at Hertford Castle
Leaving the college in December 1808, Prinsep arrived at Calcutta on 20 July 1809, at the age of sixteen. After passing two years there, first as a student in Writers' Buildings, where he saw much of Holt Mackenzie, and then as an assistant in the office of the court of Sadr Adálat, be was sent to Murshidábad, where he was employed as assistant to the magistrate, and also as registrar, a dealing with petty suits. After serving in the Jungle Mehuls and in Bákarganj, Prinsep was appointed, in 1814, to a subordinate office in the secretariat, and a member of the suite of the governor-general, Lord Moira, whom he accompanied through Oudh and the North-Western Provinces. He was subsequently the first holder of the office of superintendent and remembrancer of legal affairs, protecting the interests of the government in the courts of the provinces; but was summoned to join the governor-general's camp during prolonged tours
In 1819 and 1820, while still holding his permanent appointment, Prinsep was employed in special inquiries. An investigation into land tenures in Bardhaman district led to Regulation 8 of 1819 for Bengal. On 16 December 1820 he was appointed Persian secretary to government. He was appointed a member of council, first during a temporary vacancy in 1835, and five years later, when he was permanently appointed to the office. He finally retired from the service and left India in 1843
On his return to England in 1843 Prinsep settled in London, where he was a member of the Carlton Club and the Athenæum Club. His ambition at that time was to enter the House of Commons, and he contested four constituencies as a Conservative candidate (Kilmarnock Burghs, Dartmouth, Dover, and Harwich). At Harwich in March 1851 he was returned by a majority, was unseated by petition on technical grounds connected with his qualification, which were removed by the House of Commons.[1] Harwich constituency was then much troubled with petitions against electoral corruption, barely surviving the scrutiny. Prinsep lost his seat in another 1851 election there, surrounded by further controversy.[2]
Prinsep also canvassed for a seat in the court of directors of the East India Company, to which he was elected in 1850. When the number of directors was diminished under the act of 1853, he was one of those elected by ballot to retain their seats. In 1858, when the council of India was established, he was one of the seven directors appointed to the new council.[1]
In the council of India, Prinsep recorded frequent dissents from the decisions of the secretary of state. He was opposed to some of the measures adopted after the Indian Rebellion of 1857. He disapproved of the abolition of the system of recruiting British troops for local service in India; and of the original scheme for the establishment of staff corps for India,. He was opposed to the re-establishment of local government in Mysore, after it had been administered for thirty years by British officers. On financial grounds he deprecated the works to improve the navigation of the Godavery River. In his last year of office he recorded a protest against the adoption of the narrow gauge for Indian railways. He retired from the council in 1874.[1]
Five or six years after returning from India, the Prinseps settled at Little Holland House, in Kensington. There he cultivated the society of artists: G. F. Watts was one of his most attached friends, and lived at Little Holland House for twenty-five years. Another friend was Edward Burne-Jones.[1]
Prinsep died on 11 February 1878, at the house of G. F. Watts at Freshwater, Isle of Wight
Prinsep's wife, Sara Monckton, daughter of James Pattle, died on 15 December 1887, leaving three sons: Sir Henry Thoby Prinsep, a judge of the high court at Calcutta; Valentine Cameron Prinsep, R.A., and Arthur Haldimand Prinsep C.B., major-general of the Bengal cavalry, and C.B.
He also left one daughter, who married Charles Gurney.
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History of the Punjab : And of the Rise, Progress, & and Present Condition
Paperback| English By (author) Henry Thoby Prinsep
ISBN 13: 9781104179618
ISBN 10: 110417961X
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Origin of the Sikh Power in the Punjab, and Political Life of Muha-Raja Runjeet Singh
Paperback| English By (author) Henry Thoby Prinsep
ISBN 13: 9781152680821
ISBN 10: 115268082X
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History of the Political and Military Transactions in India During the Administration of the Marquess of Hastings, 1813-1823
by Henry Thoby Prinsep
ISBN 13: 9781144743640
ISBN 10: 1144743648
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Note on the Historical Results Deducible from Recent Discoveries in Afghanistan
by Henry Thoby Prinsep
ISBN 13: 9781241465230
ISBN 10: 1241465231
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Tibet, Tartary and Mongolia Their Social and Political Condition, and the Religion of Boodh... As there existing
by Henry Thoby Prinsep
ISBN 13: 9781446064122
ISBN 10: 1446064123
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Hon. Henry Thoby Prinsep's Timeline
| 1792 |
July 15, 1792
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Chelmsford, Essex, England (United Kingdom)
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| 1836 |
May 3, 1836
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West Bengal, India
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| 1838 |
February 14, 1838
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Kolkata (Calcutta), Kolkata, West Bengal, India
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| 1840 |
January 24, 1840
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Calcutta, India
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| 1844 |
June 6, 1844
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Westminster, London, England (United Kingdom)
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1848
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| 1878 |
February 11, 1878
Age 85
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Isle of Wight, Hampshire, England (United Kingdom)
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