Minto, Gilbert Elliot (1751–1814)

Scottish politician governor general of India 1807–13. He was a Whig, an associate of Edmund Burke, and took part in the impeachment for corruption of the colonial administrator Warren Hastings in 1785. He was an able governor general of India.

Born in Edinburgh and educated in Paris, Edinburgh, and Oxford, he became a barrister in 1774 and entered Parliament in 1776. He succeeded to his father's baronetcy in 1777 and in 1798 was created Baron Minto, receiving an earldom on his return from India.