Dictionary of Indian Biography/Buckingham and Chandos, Richard Plantagenet Campbell-Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, third Duke of
BUCKINGHAM AND CHANDOS, RICHARD PLANTAGENET CAMPBELL-TEMPLE-NUGENT-BRYDGES-CHANDOS-GRENVILLE, THIRD DUKE OF (1823–1889)
Governor: born Sep. 10, 1823, only son of the second Duke: educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford: M.P. for Buckingham, 1846–57: Junior Lord of the Treasury, 1852: as Marquis of Chandos was Chairman of the London and N.W. Railway, 1853–61: succeeded as Duke, 1861: Lord President of the Council, 1866–7: Secretary for the Colonies, 1867–8: Governor of Madras from Nov. 1875 to Dec. 1880: had to deal with the severe famine of 1877, when immense numbers of the population came on relief works and gratuitous relief, and there was great mortality: built Government House at Ootacamund: Chairman of Committees in the House of Lords, 1886–9: P-C.: G.C.S.I.: C.I.E.: D.C.L.: died March 26, 1889: when the Dukedom became extinct.