Roper Lethbridge
{{short description|British politician}}
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| name = Sir Roper Lethbridge
| honorific-suffix = KCIE
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| constituency_MP = Kensington North
| parliament = United Kingdom
| term_start = 1885
| term_end = 1892
| predecessor = New constituency
| successor = Frederick Frye
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| death_date = {{death date and age|1919|2|15|1840|12|23|df=y}}
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| party = Conservative
| education = Exeter College, Oxford
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Sir Roper Lethbridge {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|KCIE}} (23 December 1840 – 15 February 1919) was a British academic and civil servant in India and a Conservative Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1885 to 1892.
Early life and education
Lethbridge was the son of E. Lethbridge of Ste. Addresse, France. He was educated at Exeter College, Oxford and entered Inner Temple in 1864.
Career
He was appointed a professor in the Bengal Educational Department in 1868, and became a Fellow of University of Calcutta and Secretary of Simla Educational Commission. He was Editor of the Calcutta Quarterly Review from 1871 to 1878. In 1877, he moved to the Indian Political Department as Political Agent, 1st class, and was appointed Press Commissioner in 1878 when he was awarded Companion of the Indian Empire. He was knighted in 1885. Lethbridge was Hon. Member of the Anjuman-i-Punjab, a Member of the Asiatic Society and the Asiatic Society of Bengal and a Member of Council of East Indian Association and of the National Indian Association.[https://archive.org/stream/debrettshouseo1886londuoft#page/94/mode/2up Debretts House of Commons and Judicial Bench 1886]
At the 1885 general election Lethbridge was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Kensington North.{{cite book
|last=Craig
|first=F. W. S.
|author-link= F. W. S. Craig
|title=British parliamentary election results 1885–1918
|orig-year=1974
|edition= 2nd
|year=1989
|publisher= Parliamentary Research Services
|location=Chichester
|isbn= 0-900178-27-2
|page=27
}} He was re-elected in 1886 held the seat until he stood down at the 1892 election. He was awarded a KCIE in the 1890 Birthday Honours.Great Britain. India Office {{google books|b2NPAAAAMAAJ|The India List and India Office List for 1905|page=145}}
Lethbridge wrote several works about India.
He died at the age of 78.
Personal life
Lethbridge married Eliza Finlay in 1865. Their daughter Caroline married Frederick Gorell Barnes. He married his second wife Emma Neave in 1897.[http://www.thepeerage.com/p5610.htm#i56095 the Peerage.com] They lived at Cornwall Terrace, Regent's Park, London.{{cite web|title=Cornwall Terrace|url=http://www.cornwallterrace.co.uk/residences.php|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121012010929/http://cornwallterrace.co.uk/residences.php|archive-date=12 October 2012|df=dmy-all}}
Publications
- [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001250723 A Short Manual of the History of India] (1881){{cite journal|title=Review of A Short Manual of the History of India by Roper Lethbridge|journal=Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art|date=16 July 1881|volume=52|issue=1342|pages=83–84|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=iau.31858016626214;view=1up;seq=103}}
- {{cite book|last=Lethbridge|first= Roper, Sir|title=The History of India|url=https://archive.org/stream/historyofindia00lethiala#page/n7/mode/2up|year=1893|publisher=London : Macmillan}}
- {{cite book|title=The Indian Offer of Imperial Preference PS King 1913 and Read Books, 2006 |isbn=1-4067-2001-1|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s0L_YJhwgf4C&q=%22Roper+Lethbridge%22|last1=Lethbridge|first1=Roper|date=November 2006}}
- {{cite book|title=The Golden Book of India: A Genealogical and Biographical Dictionary of the Ruling Princes, Chiefs, Nobles, and Other Personages, Titled Or Decorated of the Indian Empire|publisher= Aakar Books|year= 2005 |isbn=81-87879-54-8|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=7iOsNUZ2MXgC&q=%22Roper+Lethbridge%22}}
- Swadeshi and British Fiscal Policy
- Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries 1919
References
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External links
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Category:Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
Category:Indian Civil Service (British India) officers
Category:Alumni of Exeter College, Oxford
Category:Members of the Inner Temple
Category:Knights Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire