Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto
Gilbert John ElliotMurrayKynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto KG GCSI GCMG GCIE PC was a British nobleman and politician who served as Governor General of Canada, the eighth since Canadian Confederation, and as Viceroy and GovernorGeneral of India, the countrys 17th.
Minto was born in London, the son of William ElliotMurrayKynynmound, 3rd Earl of Minto, and Emma, daughter of General Sir Thomas Hislop, 1st Baronet. After completing his education at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge, he was commissioned Lieutenant in the Scots Guards in 1867, but left in 1870. He joined the 1st Roxburghshire Mounted Rifle Volunteer Corps as a Captain in 1872. In 1874, in the capacity of a newspaper correspondent, he witnessed the operations of the Carlists in Spain he took service with the Turkish army in the war with Russia in 1877 and served under Lord Roberts in the second Afghan War , having narrowly escaped accompanying Sir Louis Cavagnari on his fatal mission to Kabul.
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