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Lawrence John Lumley Dundas, 2nd Marquess of Zetland

The Most Honourable
The Marquess of Zetland
KG GCSI GCIE PC JP DL
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Secretary of State for India
In office
7 June 1935 – 28 May 1937
Monarch George V
Edward VIII
George VI
Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin
Preceded by Sir Samuel Hoare, Bt
Succeeded by Office renamed Secretary of State for India and Burma
Secretary of State for India and Burma
In office
28 May 1937 – 13 May 1940
Monarch George VI
Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain
Preceded by New office
Succeeded by Leo Amery
Personal details
Born (1876-06-11)11 June 1876
Died 6 February 1961(1961-02-06) (aged 84)
Nationality British
Political party Conservative
Spouse(s) Cicely Archdale (1886–1973)
Alma mater Trinity College, Cambridge

Lawrence John Lumley Dundas, 2nd Marquess of Zetland, KG, GCSI, GCIE, PC, JP, DL (11 June 1876 – 6 February 1961), styled Lord Dundas until 1892 and Earl of Ronaldshay between 1892 and 1929, was a British Conservative politician. An expert on India, he served as Secretary of State for India in the late 1930s.

Zetland, born in London, was the son of Lawrence Dundas, 1st Marquess of Zetland, and Lady Lillian, daughter of Richard Lumley, 9th Earl of Scarbrough. He was educated at Harrow School and Trinity College, Cambridge. At Cambridge, he was a member of the University Pitt Club.

Zetland was returned to Parliament for Hornsey in 1907, a seat he held until 1916. Much of his public career centred on British India. In September 1912, he was appointed (with Lord Islington, Herbert Fisher, Mr Justice Abdur Rahim, and others) as a member of the Royal Commission on the Public Services in India of 1912–1915. He was Governor of Bengal between 1917 and 1922 and Secretary of State for India between 1935 and 1940. Although a member of the Conservative Party, his belief was that Indians should be allowed to take ever-increasing responsibility for the government of the country, culminating in Dominion status (enjoyed by Canada, Australia, and other formally self-governing parts of the British Empire).


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