Lord Harris : George Robert Canning (1851-1932), 4th Baron Harris: Under Secretary of State for India 1885-6: Under Secretary for War 1888-9: while Gov. of Bombay 1890-95, implementing the official policy of proving by hook or crook that Sayājirao needed to be upbraided for his independence, he once complained to French (the tutor of his children) who happened to attend a reception at the Govt. House, that Mahārāni Chimnābai had shown discourtesy to Lady Harris by failing to pay a courtesy call on her & darkly added that “Her Majesty the Queen of England was sure to be annoyed if she were to know of this lapse”. It did not count with him that Chimnābai was then in an advanced state of pregnancy & hardly in a condition to exchange formal visits – so much for the world-famous sense of fair play of a worthy arm of the British Octopus after captaining Eton Eleven, three years on Oxford Eleven, &, as prominent cricketer for Kent, captaining England’s team! The prospect of the retirement of Lord Harris as Governor of Bombay emboldened certain loyalists in the province to propose that a public memorial should be raised in his honour. Tilak criticised the administration of Lord Harris in a series of articles in his Kesari. Lovers of sports are free, he declared, to go into ecstasies over the achievements of Lord Harris. It would be callousness, however, to raise any memorial in his honour in the name of the general public. [Buckland & S.L. Karandikar]
... tumult and, finally, we see the temper rising to absolute ferocity. Not only do we read in one telegram of four Conservative meetings which were of a disorderly nature, while Lord Kesteven and Lord Harris were refused a hearing, but the windows at Mr. Ure's last meeting were broken with a battering-ram and several of his audience were cut; and the other day a Conservative meeting was broken up, the ...
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