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- [S24] Rootsweb.com India-L Archives, British Raj Mailing List archives.
Soldier and administrator, youngest son of John Talbot
Shakespear, of the Bengal civil service, by Emily (eldest
daughter of William Makepeace Thackeray of the Bengal
civil service and his wife, Amelia Richmond Webb), was
born in India on 11 May 1812.
In July 1859 Shakespear became agent to the governor-
general for Central India, residing at Indur. He conducted that
year the negotiations with the Begums of Bhopal and installed
Sikander Begum as rani of Bhopal. For his tact in extricating
the government from an embarrassing position, he was highly
commended by the governor-general in a despatch dated 31
Dec. He was made a companion of the Bath, civil division, in
1860, and later in the same year (30 Dec.) Lord Canning, in
a despatch to the home government, expressed his high
appreciation of Shakespear's conduct of the negotiations with
Scindia. Scindia had been induced to concede territory to the
maharaja of Gwalior in acknowledgement of the latter's services
to the government during the mutiny. Scindia also consented
to receive a subsidiary force composed of troops of the line
in lieu of the contingent. [snip]
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