in Paris Commenting on the appointment of Lord Hardinge of Penshurst, the ex-Viceroy of India, to be British Ambassador in Paris in succession to the Earl of Derby, the "Morning Post" says:—Charles Hardinge (Lord Hardinge of Penshurst) 15 the grandson of the celebrated Indian ruler, the first Viscount Hard-). inge of Lahore. He was educated at Harrow and at Trinity College, Cambridge, Where he took mathe-magical honours in 1880, In that year he was nominated an Attache and was sent to Constantinople early in 1881. Subsequently he served in Berlin, Washington, Sofia, and Bucharest, going in 1893 to Paris, his next appointments being Secretary of Legation at Teheran and Secretary of Embassy at St. Petersburg. In 1904 he became ambassador in the Russian capital. Sir Charles Hardinge, as he had now become, was appointed Permanent Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs in 1906
In June, 1910, he was made Viceroy of India, and created Baron Hardinge of Penshurst, his selection as Viceroy being received with approval in both England and India. While acting as Viceroy it was Lord Hardinge's lot to receive on Indian soil King George and Queen Mary when their Majesties made their it_to their Eastern Dominions, which culminated in the Delhi Durbar in December, 1911.
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