CHAPTER V
First Year at Calcutta
1844-45
Lord Hardinge always expressed himself deeply grateful for the advice and help so heartily rendered to him by the members of the Indian services, both civil and military. And it is only just to record the names of those who formed his Council at Calcutta, and of those who were at this time at the head of the several departments of the Secretariat. Sir Hugh Gough, a Peninsular officer somewhat senior to Sir Henry Hardinge, was commander-in-chief. The military member of Council was Sir George Pollock, who had shortly before returned from leading the army of Kábul through the Kháibar Pass. The legal member of Council, appointed in England, was Charles Hay Cameron, a pupil of Bentham; the representatives of the civil service were Sir Herbert Maddock and Frederick Millett. The foreign secretary was Currie (afterwards Sir Frederick), with W. Edwards for his assistant; the home department was under Bushby, finance under Dorin. The administration of Bengal was under the direct charge of the Governor-General, with Halliday for his secretary; though when Sir H. Hardinge was called to the frontier, Sir
