Charles Wood, 1st Viscount Halifax

Main article: Wood's despatch

As the President of the Board of Control, Wood took a major step in spreading education in India in 1854, when he sent a despatch to Lord Dalhousie, the Governor-General of India. Wood recommended the following:

1. An education department should be set in every province.
2. Universities on the model of the University of London should be established in large cities such as Bombay, Calcutta and Madras.
3. At least one government school be opened in every district.
4. Affiliated private schools should be given grant in aid.
5. The Indian natives should be given training in the vernacular.

In accordance with Wood's despatch, education departments were established in every province and universities were opened at Calcutta, Bombay and Madras in 1857, as well as in Punjab in 1882 and in Allahabad in 1887.^{[ citation needed ]}.

Family

Lord Halifax married Lady Mary Grey (3 May 1807 – 6 July 1884), fifth daughter of Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, on 29 July 1829. They had four sons and three daughters:^{[ citation needed ]}

• Hon. Blanche Edith Wood (d. 21 July 1921) married on 21 September 1876, Col. Hon. Henry William Lowry-Corry (30 June 1845 – 6 May 1927).
• Hon. Alice Louisa Wood (d. 3 June 1934)
• Charles Lindley Wood, 2nd Viscount Halifax (7 January 1839 – 19 January 1934)
• Hon. Emily Charlotte Wood (1840 – 21 December 1904) married Hugo Francis Meynell-Ingram (1822 – 26 May 1871)
• Capt. Hon. Francis Lindley Wood, RN (17 October 1841 – 14 October 1873)
• Lt Col. Hon. Henry John Lindley Wood (12 January 1843 – 5 January 1903)
• Hon. Fredrick George Lindley Wood (later Meynell) (4 June 1846 – 4 November 1910)

Lady Halifax died in 1884. Lord Halifax survived her by just over a year and died in August 1885, aged 84. He was succeeded in his titles by his eldest son Charles, who was the father of Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax.

References

1. "Charles Wood". History of Parliament Online.
2. Hurd & Young, p. 116.
3. Hurd & Young, p. 121.
4. Charles Trevelyan, John Mitchel and the historiography of the Great Famine
5. Woodham Smith, Cecil, (1962) The Great Hunger. Penguin Books ISBN   9780140145151
6. Potatoes and Providence
7. The Irish Hunger and its Alignments with the 1948 Genocide Conventione
8. Kinealy, Christine (2014). "The British Relief Association and the Great Famine in Ireland". Revue Française de Civilisation Britanique. XIX (2): 49–66. doi:10.4000/rfcb.230.

An 1873 portrait of Lord Halifax by Anthony de Brie.

Bibliography

• Steele, David (May 2009). "Wood, Charles, first Viscount Halifax (1800–1885)" . Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/29865.(Subscription, Wikipedia Library access or UK public library membership required.)

• Southgate, D. The passing of the whigs, 1832–1886 (1962)
• Moore, R. J. Sir Charles Wood's Indian policy, 1853–1866 (1966) online
• Steele, E. D. Palmerston and liberalism, 1855–1865 (1991) online
• Edwards, R. D., and T. D. Williams, eds. The great famine: studies in Irish history, 1845–1852 (1956)
• Kinealy, Christine (1994). This Great Calamity: The Irish Famine 1845–52. Dublin: Gill & Macmillan.
• Famine 150: Commemorative Lecture Series. Dublin: Teagasc / U.C.D. 1997.
• Kinealy, Christine (1997). A Death-Dealing Famine: The Great Hunger in Ireland . London: Pluto Press.
• Kinealy, Christine (2005). "Was Ireland a Colony? The Evidence of the Great Famine". In Terrence McDonough (ed.). Was Ireland A Colony?. Dublin: Irish Academic Press.
• Boyce, D. George (2005). New Gill History of Ireland Vol. 5: Nineteenth Century Ireland. Dublin: Gill & Macmillan.
• Hickey, D. J.; Doherty, J. E. (2003). A New Dictionary of Irish History from 1800. Dublin: Gill & Macmillan.
• Ó Gráda, Cormac (2006). Ireland's Great Famine: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Dublin: U.C.D.

External links

• Media related to Charles Wood, 1st Viscount Halifax at Wikimedia Commons
• Works by or about Charles Wood, 1st Viscount Halifax at Wikisource
• Works by or about Charles Wood, 1st Viscount Halifax at the Internet Archive
• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by the Viscount Halifax

The Right Honourable The Viscount Halifax GCB PC
Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal
In office 6 July 1870 –17 February 1874

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