George Carnac Barnes, CB (1818 – 13 May 1861) was a British administrator in India.
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The son of the Venerable George Barnes, Archdeacon of Barnstaple and Archdeacon of Bombay, he was educated at Westminster School before proceeding to India. As Commissioner of the Cis-Sutlej States, he preserved their allegiance during the Indian Mutiny, for which he was appointed a CB.
He was appointed Foreign Secretary to the Government of India in succession to Cecil Beadon by Lord Canning, but soon died of dysentery.[1] He was succeeded by Sir Henry Marion Durand.
His son Sir George Stapylton Barnes was a civil servant in Britain and in India. Another son, Monsignor Arthur Stapylton Barnes, was a prominent Roman Catholic clergyman. A nephew, Sir Hugh Shakespear Barnes, also reached high office in India.
References
edit- ^ Trotter, Lionel J. (1886). History of India Under Queen Victoria From 1836 to 1880. London: W. H. Allen & Co. pp. 136–137.