Blachford, Frederic Rogers, Baron

Blachford, Frederic Rogers, Baron
(1811-1889)
   Born in England. Educated at Eton and Oxford. In 1844 registrar of joint-stock companies and commissioner of lands and emigration; from 1860 to 1871 permanent undersecretary of state for the colonies; and in 1871 made a privy councillor.
   Index: Md On Macdonald's part in Westminster Conference, 126-127.
   Bib.: Dict. Nat. Biog.

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