'Sir Evan Nepean, 1st Baronet'
PC (
9 July 1751 or 1753 near
Saltash,
Cornwall –
2 October 1822) was a British politician and colonial administrator.
He served as the first effective Permanent
Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department April 1782-December 1791,
Under-Secretary of State for War in 1794, secretary to the Board of
Admiralty 1795-1804,
Chief Secretary for Ireland 1804-1805,
Commissioner of the Admiralty, and
governor of
Bombay 1812-1819.
He was
Member of Parliament for
Queenborough from 1796 till 1802, then moving to
Bridport where he remained until 1812. He was made a
baronet in 1802 and was admitted to the
Privy Council of the United Kingdom in 1804.
The former city of
Nepean, Ontario,
Canada, the
Nepean River in
New South Wales,
Australia and the
Nepean Highway from Melbourne to Portsea in the south east of
Victoria,
Australia and the
Nepean Sea Road in
Mumbai,
India, were all named after him.
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History of the Home Office 1782-1982
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