AUCKLAND, GEORGE EDEN, EARL OF a governor-general of India, was second son of the first Baron Auckland. He was educated at Oxford, succeeding to the peerage in 1814. He was a consistent supporter of the `'Whigs and was selected by Lord Grey as president of the Board of Trade and master of the Mint in the famous Reform ministry of 183o. He occupied these two posts until Lord Grey's retirement in when Lord Melbourne made him first lord of the Admiralty, a post which he lost on the fall of the ministry the same year. On his return to office in 1835, Lord Melbourne sent Auckland out as governor-general to India. He devoted his attention to the improvement of native schools, to the economic development of India and especially to construction of famine relief works in the north-west ; and he would no doubt have been remembered only as a painstaking and successful administrator but for his appalling error in interfering in the affairs of Afghanistan. Yielding to unwise advice, he proclaimed in Oct. 1838 the dethronement of the Afghan usurper, Dost Mohammed, and sent an expedition to Kabul under Sir John Keane, who victoriously entered the city and placed the rival Shah Shuja on the throne in Aug. 1839. For this victory he was created Lord Eden of Norwood and Earl of Auckland. But at the end of 1841 the insufficient garrison left in Kabul was surprised and defeated by a native insurrection. A series of disasters followed, as a result of which very few of the white troops reached India alive. Lord Auckland left India, recalled by Peel, in Feb. 1842, when affairs were at their worst. He re-entered politics and was again made first lord of the Ad miralty in 1846 by Lord John Russell. He died suddenly on Jan. I, 1849.