[PW] 1922? Bombing in Hong Kong

[Janice Sellers]

Thank you, Joan!  This looks like an excellent possibility.  The
father in question was from Punjab, not far from Delhi.  I will pass
on the information to my patron.

Janice

On 3/17/08, joan hughes <bjhughes1947 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Maybe it wasn't in Hong Kong but in India and maybe
>  the man didn't die. I found this on the following URL
>  about the East India Company
>  http://www.honeastindiaco.com/governors.html. After
>  all these years some of the facts might be fuzzy but
>  it did happen to a viceroy in India in Dec. 1922.
>
>  Charles Hardinge – 1st Baron Hardinge of Penshurst
>  (1858-1944)
>  In 1910 Hardinge was appointed Viceroy of India
>  and raised to the peerage with the title of 1st Baron
>  Hardinge of Penshurst. In December 1922, while
>  entering the city of Delhi in state a bomb was thrown
>  at him causing serious injuries and killing an
>  attendant.