INDIA’S VICEROY

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 52, 25 November 1930, Page 9

INDIA’S VICEROY

Forthcoming Appointment LORD GORELL MENTIONED Loudon, November 23. The “Daily Express’ understands that the new Viceroy of India will be Lord Gorell. Soldier, author, educationalist and political student, Lord Gorell is a man of many parts and brilliant atainments. On the death of his elder brother in 1917 he succeeded to the title. Lord Gorell is 4(5 years of age. He was educated at Winchester, Harrow, and Oxford, and, in 1910, he threw in his lot with journalism and joined the staff of “The Times”, He remained on the staff of that newspaper until 1915. He saw active service for three years, and, at the end of that time, held the rank of captain in the 7th (Service) Battalion of the Rifle Brigade. . t . In 1918 Lord Gorell was appointed to the War Office as Deputy-Director of Staff Duties (Education). There he was responsible for the educational organisation of War Armies and Armies of Occupation, and for the inauguration of Army Educational Corps. 1' rom 1918 to 1920 he was chairman of the Imperial Education Committee, from 1920 to 1927 was a member of the Consultative Committee of the Board of Education, and in 3922 became chairman of the Teachers’ Registration Council, n post he still holds, together with the presidency of the Royal Society of Teachers, which was founded last year. . In 1921, Lord Gorell was chairman of the Miners’ Welfare Committee of the Board of Trade, and in July of that year became Under-Secretary for Air in the Coalition Ministry, a position he held until October, 1922. He has also been president of the National Council for Combating Venereal Disease. Besides being a poet of considerable skill, a writer of light essays, and a novelist specialising largely in mystery stories, Lord Gorell is a partner in the publishng house of John Murray. • centlv he wns mentioned as a possible successor to Lord Thomson as Secretary of State for Air. Lord Gorell is the son of John Gorell Barnes, who was President of the Probate, Divorce, and Admiralty Division of the High Court joined the Labour Party in 1925.