NEW INDIAN VICEROY.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 841, 13 June 1910, Page 7

NEW INDIAN VICEROY.

4 SIR C' HARDINCE. PROMOTION FROM FOREIGN OFFICE. Bf TelojrraDh—Press Associatfon-Coovrlebt London, June 10. It is officially announced that th( Right Hon. Sir Charles.Hardinge, P. 0., G.C.M.G., G.C.V.0., Permanent UnderSecretary for Foreign AffaiVs since 1906 ; has been appointed Viceroy of India in succession to the Earl of Minto. PROBABLE SUCCESSOR. (Rec. June 12, 5 p.m.) London, June 11. It is expected that the Right Hon. Sir Arthur Nicolson, G.C.8., G.C.M.G., G.C.V.0., Ambassador to Russia since 1905—when he succeeded Sir Charles Hardinge at St. Petersburg—will again succeed him as Permanent'Under-Secre-tary at the Foreign Office. Renter states that reports from Simla, India, indicate a general approval of Sir Chas. Hardinge's appointment as Viceroy. Indian officials welcome him as a tried diplomat. SIR C. HARDINGE AND SIR A. NICOLSON. Tie Eight Hon. Sir Chas. Hardinge, who is to leave the Permanent Under-1 Secretaryship of the Foreign Office to be Viceroy of restive India, is the second son of the second Viscount Hardinge, and was born in 1858. . He was educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge, and entered the diplomatic service in 1881. He was at Conslantinople till 18S4, then went to Berlin, and was appointed to Washington in Ibtfo. Here he was promoted to be Second Secretary. He was at Sena from 1887 till IS9I, at Paris, for three years, and then became Secretary of Legation at Teheran, IS9S-93, and at St. Petersburg 18981903. He was appointed' Assistant UnderSecretary of State for Foreign Affairs in February, 1903, Ambassador at St. Petersburg in March, 1901, and Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs in February,. 1906. He married to. 1890 the Hon. Winifred Shirt, daughter of the late Lord Alingtoji, and has two sons and one daughter. He conducted the negotiations with Russia in the delicate Dogger Bank incident, and in 1908 accompanied King Edward on his visit to the Tsar at Reval. The rapprochement with Russia.has porhaps been the main feature of his career as Under-Secretary and of Sir A. Nieolson's tennre of the Ambassadorship to Russia. Sir Chas. Hardinge. is 51 yeaire of age.. The Right Hon. Sir Arthur Nicolson was awarded his G.CB. for his services in connection with the Anglo-Russian Agreement of 1907, which be signed. He was British representative at the Algeciras Conference concerning Morocco, and received the G.C.M.G. ' 11 is 37 years since he entered the Foreign Office, and he has had a wide experience of diplomatic work in many countries.