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TAVISTOCK — TEIGNMOUTH. 371 TAVISTOCK. if., "Tavistock" Marquessats (Mitmll), cr. 1G94, with the Dukedom of Bkdtobd, which see. TAY. ie., "Tay and Painti.axp," Viscounty [S.] (Campbell), rr. 1GS1 (with the precedency of 1077), together with the Eauluom op Ijiieadalbane [S.], which see. TAYLBO YS, see TAILI30YS. TAY MOUTH CASTLE. " ]!headai.1!axe OF Taymouth Castle, co. Perth," Baron; (Camp- hll, rr. ISOti: cr. 1802; see " Ukkadalbanb" Earldom [S.], cr. 1GS1 (with the precedency of l(i77), under the 4th Earl. TEHIDY. See u de Dcxstanville op Tehidy, co. Cornwall," Barony (Basset); cr. 1790 ; ex. 1835. TKIOX.MOUTIL Barony [I.] £ gjg JOHN Shore, Hart., of Heathcote, co. Derhy, T 1707 Governor Gen. >.f India, was cr. 3 March 1707, BAHON TEIGN- ' MOUTH [I.] //■• WW 1st s. of |9^W Suohk, 0/ MeJto;), co. Suffolk, Supercargo t*« the East India Company, by his second wife, Dorothy, da, of ( — ) SuKl'ElKitD, a Capt. in that Company's service ; was b. in St. James' Street, 5 Oct. 1751 : *d, at Harr..w : embarlc«d for India at the age of 17 ; was on the Provincial Council of Calcu( ta, 1773 ; on the Board of Revenue there, 178Q-S5, and on the Supreme Council^*) 1780-89, taking an active [.art in setting the revenues of Bengal, Hehar and Oritsa. He was GoVKHNOH Gen. ok India, 1792-97, being rr. a Baronet, as above, 27 Oct. 17P2 on his taking that office (which he was with difficulty persuaded to accept), and cr. a l'ttr [I.], as above, 3 March 1797 on his retirement therefrom^] ; P.C. 1807, and n Commissi-, for the affairs of India, 1S07 to about 1S30 ; F.S.A., &c He m. 14 Feb, 17SG, at Little l)crham, near Exeter, Charlotte, only da. of James Cornish, of Teignuiouth, Devon, by Margaret, da. of the Kev. William Floyeh, Hector of Trushum, in that county. He tl. in I'ortman Square (on the 48th anni- versary of his wedding), 14 Feb. 1S34, aged S2, and was iiur. in the church of St. Marylobone.( r )M.I. Will pr. March 1834. His widow (I. 5 mouths later, 13 July 1S34, at the house of her sou-iu-hnv, in Sussex place, and Has bur. with her husband. (") "Pacific habits anil skill in revenue" were, according to Mill, his qualifications for this seat. ( b ) The defensive measures against Tippoo, the capture of the Dutch fleet, and the reform in the Govt, of Oude with the deposition of the Nabob, were the chief events of his administration. He was at first opposed to Warren Hastings' measures, but afterwards became his warm friend ami supporter. ( c ) He appears to have been an amiable, pious, unambitious, intelligent man, whom circumstances (coupled with a good knowledge of foreign language, and with some financial skill), thrust into a position of the first importance. Here he acquitted himself honourably and creditably, although lack of enterprise and of force of character prevented him from leaving his mark as one of the great rulers of India. If he was not a Cornwall!* nor a Dalhousie, at any rate, he was neither a Lytton nor a Kipon. He was the bosom friend of Sir William Jones, whom he sue. as President of the Asiatic Society, and whose life and works he edited. He was also President of the British and Foreign Bible Society at its foundation in 1804. His life was written by his sou and successor in the title. 2 A*