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'''John Cartier''' (23 May 1733 – 25 January 1802) was a [[British people|British]] [[Governors of India|colonial governor]] in [[Company rule in India|India]]. He served as [[Governor of Bengal]] from 1769 to 1772.<br />
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== Early career ==<br />
Cartier first arrived in India as a writer in the service of the [[British East India Company]].<ref name="buckland">Buckland, 75.</ref> He was expelled from [[Dacca]] in 1756 while serving there as an assistant.<ref name="buckland"/> After fleeing with other fugitives to [[Fulta]], he joined [[Clive of India]] and helped in the retaking of [[Bengal]], for which he was praised by the Court of Directors of the British East India Company.<ref name="buckland"/> Cartier's career accelerated after the [[Battle of Plassey]]. In 1761, Cartier became chief of the Dacca factory.<ref name="banglapedia"/> By 1767, he was Second in the [[Calcutta]] Council.<ref name="buckland"/><br />
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== Governor of Bengal ==<br />
On 26 December 1769 Cartier succeeded [[Harry Verelst (colonial governor)|Harry Verelst]] as Governor of [[Bengal]].<ref name="buckland"/> Cartier was governor at time of the [[Bengal famine of 1770]], during which one-third of the populace died. Cartier was blamed for ignoring warnings about the impending disaster<ref name="banglapedia">Islam, ''"Cartier, John"''.</ref> but was able to use a magazine of grain to feed fifteen thousand people every day for some months.<ref name="bernstein">{{Cite news |last=Bernstein |first=Jeremy |date=11 June 2000 |title=''"Dawning of the Raj: The Life and Trials of Warren Hastings"'' – Chapter One |url=https://www.nytimes.com/books/first/b/bernstein-raj.html |access-date=13 November 2007 |work=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref> <br />
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In response to the crisis, the Court of Directors sent a three-person commission to Bengal to assess the situation. En route, however, the ship carrying the three members foundered at sea.<ref name="malleson">Malleson, pp. 95-96.</ref> The Court of Directors did not send a replacement and recalled Cartier.<ref name="banglapedia"/> [[Warren Hastings]] was selected as his replacement; he took office on 28 April 1772.<ref name="buckland"/><br />
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Cartier became a [[High Sheriff of Kent]] in 1789. Unusually the previous incumbent, James Bond, continued from the year before and Cartier served only for the latter part of the year.<ref>[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=53762 Profile], British-history.ac.uk. Retrieved 17 November 2007.</ref><br />
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Cartier died in [[Bedgebury Cross|Bedgbury]], [[Kent]] on 25 January 1802 and was buried at Goudhurst, Kent. He was eulogized by [[Edmund Burke]] for his government of Bengal.<ref name="buckland"/> His wife Stephana, the daughter of [[Stephen Law (Governor of Bombay)|Stephen Law]], survived him and also died in Bedgbury on 22 August 1825.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=Ln6gPYTqE8YC&dq=%22john+cartier%22+bengal&pg=PA373 ''The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Miscellany'', 1825, p. 373]. Retrieved 15 November 2007.</ref><br />
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== Notes ==<br />
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* {{cite book|first=C.|last=Buckland|year=1906|title=''Dictionary of Indian Biography''| editor = Charles Edward Buckland| pages= [https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_InFTmnS4crYC/page/n87 75]| publisher=Swan Sonnenschein & Co.|location=London| url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_InFTmnS4crYC|quote=dictionary biography.}}<br />
*{{cite book|first=George Bruce|last=Malleson|year=1894|title=''Life of Warren Hastings, First Governor-general of India''| pages= 563 pages| publisher=Chapman and Hall|location=London| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ifAEAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22john+cartier%22+bengal&pg=PA95}}<br />
* {{cite book |last=Islam |first=Sirajul |year=2012 |chapter=Cartier, John |chapter-url=http://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Cartier,_John |editor1-last=Islam |editor1-first=Sirajul |editor1-link=Sirajul Islam |editor2-last=Jamal |editor2-first=Ahmed A. |title=Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh |edition=Second |publisher=[[Asiatic Society of Bangladesh]]}}<br />
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