Ellenborough
EDWARD LAW, 1st EARL OF, son of Lord Chief-Justice Justic Ellenborough; born in 1790. He was educated at Eton and Cambridge, and in 1818, having succeeded his father as second baron, he entered the House of Lords. He took office in 1828 as lord privy-seal, and became president of the board of control in 1828-1830, and again in 1834. In 1841 he accepted the governor-generalship of India, and arrived in Calcutta in 1842, in time to bring the Afghan war to a successful issue; but he was recalled early in 1844. On his return, however, he was defended by Wellington, and received the thanks of Parliament, an earldom, and the Grand Cross of the Bath. He then held the post of first lord of the admiralty admiralty (1845- 1846), and was president of the board of control from February to June, 1858.
His dispatch censuring the policy of Lord Canning as governor-general of India led to his resignation, and he never resumed office. He died in 1871.