Henry Whitelock Torrens

Henry Whitelock Torrens

Henry Whitelock Torrens, son of Major-General Henry Torrens, was born on 20 May 1806. He received his B.A. at Christ Church, Oxford, 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 in the editing of the Calcutta Star, a weekly paper, which became a daily paper called the Eastern Star. He was secretary (1840–1846) and a Vice-President (1843–1845) to the Asiatic Society of Bengal. 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.

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May 20th, 1806
Age
218
Date of Death
January 1st, 1852
Died Aged
45
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