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and statesman who served as Viceroy and Governor-General of India from

1910 to 1916. Hardinge was the second son of Charles Hardinge, 2nd Viscount Hardinge, and the 1st Viscount Hardinge, a former Governor-General of India.

He was educated Cheam School, Harrow School and at Trinity College, Cambridge.

Hardinge entered the diplomatic services in 1880. He was appointed the first

secretary at Tehran in 1896, and the first secretary at Saint Petersburg in 1898, when he was promoted over the

heads of seventeen of his seniors. After a brief tenure as Assistant

Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, he became Ambassador to Russia, in 1904. In 1906, he was promoted to the

position of Permanent

Under-Secretary at the Foreign Office, where, despite his own

conservatism, worked closely Edward

Grey. In 1907, he declined the post of Ambassador to the United States. In 1910, Hardinge was raised

to the peerage as Baron Hardinge of

Penshurst, in the County of Kent,[3] and appointed by the Asquith government as Viceroy of

India.His tenure was a memorable one, and included the visit

of King George V, and the Delhi Durbar of 1911, as well as the move of the capital

from Calcutta to New Delhi, in 1911. Although Hardinge was the target of assassination attempts by

Indian nationalists, his tenure included an improvement of relations between

the British administration and the nationalists, as a consequence of the

implementation of the Morley-Minto reforms of

1909; and of Hardinge's own admiration for Mohandas Gandhi and criticism of the South African government's anti-Indian immigration

policies.[ The Hardinge Railway bridge in Bangladesh was constructed and

inaugurated(1915) in his tenure. It continues to serve a crucial a role in the

country's railway network even today.Hardinge's efforts paid off in 1914 during

the First World War. Due to

improved colonial relationships, Britain was able to deploy nearly all of the

British troops in India as well as many native Indian troops to areas outside

of India. In particular the British Indian Army was

able to play a significant role in the Mesopotamian campaign. In

1916, Hardinge returned to his former post in England as Permanent

Under-Secretary at the Foreign Office, serving with Arthur Balfour. In 1920 he became ambassador to France before his retirement in 1922