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Charles Metcalfe was born on January 30, 1785, in Calcutta, India.
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Charles Metcalfe was born on January 30, 1785, in Calcutta, India.
Metcalfe studied at Eton, in 1800 he sailed for India as a writer in the service of the Company. He then studied Oriental languages as the first student at Lord Wellesley's College of Fort William.
In 1803 he became personal secretary to the governor-general of Bengal, Lord Wellesley. He served as political assistant to Gen. Gerard Lake in the Third Maratha War (fought between the British and the Marathas of southwestern India). In 1808 he was sent as envoy to Lahore to secure Sikh support against the Napoleonic threat to India, afterward securing the Sikhs’ agreement to British protection of all Sikh states east of the Sutlej River. He then served as resident in Gwalior (1810), Delhi (1811–1819), and Hyderabad (1820–1822), succeeding to the baronetcy in 1822.
Metcalfe became a member of the all-India governing supreme council in 1827 and, on the departure of Lord William Bentinck in March 1835, acting governor-general. The British government, refusing to retain an East India Company official as governor-general, appointed Lord Auckland to the post. Metcalfe was made lieutenant governor of the northwest provinces the following year, but, denied governorship of Madras (now Chennai), he resigned in 1838 and returned to England. The following year he was appointed governor of Jamaica, where he eased the transition to the emancipation of blacks and updated judicial practices. Suffering from cancer, he resigned in 1842 and returned to England, but the following year he accepted the governor generalship of Canada, where he grappled with party politics. His health failing, he returned to England in 1845, soon after being raised to the peerage.
Charles Theophilus Metcalfe died on September 5, 1846.
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Charles Metcalfe was a member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom.
Charles Metcalfe had never married, but he had fathered three Eurasian sons during his years in India.