John Young, 1st Baron Lisgar

John Young, 1st Baron Lisgar GCB, GCMG, PC ( born August 31, 1807 in Bombay, India, † October 6, 1876 in Bailieborough, Ireland) known until 1870 as Sir John Young, 2nd Baronet, was a British colonial administrator and the second Governor General of Canada.

John Young was born in 1807 as son of Sir William Young and his wife Lucy Frederick in Mumbai, India; his father was a shareholder and a director of the East India Company. He studied at Eton College and Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where he graduated in law in 1829. Already in 1831 he was elected for the Tories in his native constituency County Cavan in the British House of Commons, where he remained until 1855. In 1834 he became a member of the Bar of Lincoln 's Inn, but never practiced law. 1831 to 1835 he served as Chief Secretary for Ireland. In 1848 he inherited the title of baronet, and in the same year he became chief administrator of the Ionian Islands, which were a British protectorate at that time. After a report was leaked in which he advocated unpopular administrative measures, he was recalled, though in honor. 1861 to 1867 he served as Governor of New South Wales in Australia.

On December 29, 1868 Lisgar was appointed Governor General of Canada and Governor of Prince Edward Iceland. Already in the first year of his tenure, the Red River Rebellion broke under Louis Riel and Young said the rebels, who only demanded a separate province under the British Crown, on December 6, 1869, amnesty, but never applied to their leaders been. The transfer of Rupert's land from the Hudson 's Bay Company in the Canadian state was delayed by the rebellion, and so Lisgar was until August 1870 and Governor-General of this area. In June 1870, he had British Columbia signaled the willingness of the Canadian Federation for the recording, what with the agreement led to a transcontinental railway connection to the recording as a new province in 1871. 1870-1871 was Lisgar in economic relations repeatedly between the interests of the Crown and the Canadian Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald. For health reasons, he declined the 1872 re- appointment as Governor-General from and died 1876. His barony, which had been awarded to him in 1870, became extinct at his death, as he had no sons.

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