Teignmouth, John Shore (1751–1834)

British governor general of India, and president of the British and Foreign Bible Society

He entered the service of the East India Company as a cadet at the age of 18. A man of great personal integrity and devotion to duty, he rose rapidly, and by 1787 was a member of the Supreme Council. In 1793 he succeeded Charles Cornwallis as governor general. He retired from this office in 1797, and received a barony. Shore was an evangelical, closely connected with the Clapham Sect, and became first president of the British and Foreign Bible Society.