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'''Sir George Hilaro Barlow, 1st Baronet''', [[Order of the Bath|GCB]] (20 January 1763 – 18 December 1846)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://openathens.auth.reading.ac.uk/oala/login/rdg-home|title=Single Sign On|website=openathens.auth.reading.ac.uk}}</ref> served as Acting Governor-General of [[India]] from the death of [[Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis|Lord Cornwallis]] in 1805 until the arrival of [[Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 1st Earl of Minto|Lord Minto]] in 1807.<br />
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==Career==<br />
He was appointed to the [[Bengal Civil Service]] in 1778, and in 1788 carried into execution the permanent settlement of [[Bengal]].<br />
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When the [[Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis|Marquess of Cornwallis]] died in 1805, Sir George Barlow was nominated provisional governor-general, and his passion for economy and retrenchment in that capacity has caused him to be known as the only governor-general who diminished the area of British territory; but his nomination was rejected by the home government, and [[Gilbert Eliott, 1st earl of Minto|Lord Minto]] was appointed. Subsequently, Barlow was created governor of [[Madras]], where his want of tact caused a [[mutiny]] of the British officers of the Madras Army in 1809, similar to that which had previously occurred under [[Robert Clive|Clive]]. The main cause of the discontent was the abolition of certain purchase contracts for camping equipment which involved some money being embezzled by the officers.<ref>{{cite book|title=Memoir and correspondence of General James Stuart Fraser of the Madras Army|author=Fraser, Hastings|year=1885|publisher=Whiting & Co.|place=London|url=https://archive.org/stream/memoirandcorres01frasgoog#page/n32/mode/2up/|page=4}}</ref> In 1812 he was recalled, and lived in retirement until his death in [[Farnham]], Surrey, in December 1846.<br />
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He was created a [[baronet]] in 1803.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=15595 |date=21 June 1803 |pages=740–741 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle=Barlow, Sir George Hilaro}}</ref> In October 1806 he was appointed a [[Knight Companion of the Order of the Bath]] (KB),<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=15970 |date=28 October 1806 |page=1421}}</ref> which on the reconstitution of the Order in 1815 became [[Knight Grand Cross]] (GCB).<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=16972 |date=4 January 1815 |pages=17–20 }}</ref><br />
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He was portrayed in a bust by [[Bertel Thorvaldsen]] when he visited the sculptor in Rome Spring 1828.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://arkivet.thorvaldsensmuseum.dk/people/barlow-george-hilaro|title=George Hilaro Barlow - The Thorvaldsens Museum Archives|website=arkivet.thorvaldsensmuseum.dk}}</ref><br />
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==Personal life==<br />
He married Elizabeth, daughter of Burton Smith, in Calcutta on 16 April 1789 and had fifteen children. In 1815 he discovered that one of them had in fact been fathered by George Pratt Barlow, a young kinsman whom he had admitted to his household in India in 1803. The marriage was dissolved by Act of Parliament in 1816.<br />
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