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Young (SIR JOHN BARON LISGAR)

SIR JOHN, BARON LISGAR, a British statesman; born in Bombay, British India, Aug. 31, 1807; was graduated at Oxford University in 1829 and called to the bar in 1834. He was a member of the House of Commons in 1831- 1845; lord of the treasury in 1841-1844; secretary of the treasury in 1844-1846; chief secretary under the Earl of Aberdeen, in Ireland, in 1852-1855; and in the latter year was transferred to the Ionian Islands as lord high commissioner. On the death of his father in 1848 he succeeded to the baronetcy, and in 1860 was sent to New South Wales as governor. His administration in that colony lasted nearly seven years, when he returned to England, and in 1868 was appointed governor-general of Canada, in which office he served till 1872, when he was succeeded by the Earl of Dufferin. He died in Ireland, Oct. 6, 1876.