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Willingdon, Lord (1866-1941) the Governor General and Viceroy of India from 1931 to 1936. Educated at Eton and Cambridge, Marquis Freeman Thomas Willingdon had served earlier as governor of Bombay (1913-1919) and Madras (1919-24).
The greatest contributions of Lord Willingdon
to the Raj was to persuade the Congress to join the second Round Table
Conference, fizzle out the second civil
disobedience movement and help to shape the Government of India
Bill, 1935. He implemented smoothly the India Act of 1935. But a little
before the actual elections were held under the India Act of 1935 his
term of viceroyalty ran out and Lord linlithgow
replaced him to inaugurate the elective system that he built
so strenuously. [Sirajul Islam] |
