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1907, India, Lord Minto (Viceroy). "Minto Fancy Fete" Silver Good Luck Medal.

Mint Year: 1907
Mint Place: Calcutta
Reference: Pudd 907.3.2.
Condition: Pierced for a suspnsion ring (as usual), otherwise XF+
Denomination: Medal - Minto Fancy Fete (chaarity event, organized to provide the Indian Nursing Association).
Diameter: 32mm
Material: Silver
Weight: 5.23gm

Obverse: Viceroy's Arm within circle of beads. Stars and for-leaved clovers around.

Reverse: Monumental Column. Landscape in background.
Legend: THE MINTO FANCY FETE . CALCUTTA 1907 .

Lord Minto succeeded Lord Curzon as the Viceroy of India in November 1905 and remained in office till 1910. His wife Mary Caroline Grey, popularly known as Lady Mintowas very much involved in the organization of the Indian Nursing Association and had organized a Fete which was to provide the organization with endowments. The Fete was held between January 20th, 1907 and February 7th 1907 at Calcutta.

Gilbert John Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto KG GCSI GCMG GCIE PC (9 July 1845 – 1 March 1914) was a British nobleman and politician who served as Governor General of Canada, the eighth since Canadian Confederation, and as Viceroy and Governor-General of India, the country's 17th.

In 1905, on the resignation of Lord Curzon of Kedleston, Lord Minto was appointed Viceroy and Governor-General of India, retiring in 1910. In this, he followed in the footsteps of his great-grandfather, the first Lord Minto. When John Morley as Secretary of State for India wrote to Minto arguing that "Reforms may not save the Raj, but if they don't, nothing else will", Minto replied:

...when you say that "if reforms do not save the Raj nothing else will" I am afraid I must utterly disagree. The Raj will not disappear in India as long as the British race remains what it is, because we shall fight for the Raj as hard as we have ever fought, if it comes to fighting, and we shall win as we have always won.

The reforms were called usually by the name "Morley-Minto Reforms" because of both John Morley and Lord Minto worked together to draw these reforms. They were passed by the British parliament in 1909 as the Indian Councils Act. He was then succeeded by Lord Hardinge of Penshurst.

For his lifetime of service, was made a Knight of the Garter.

Minto Park in Kolkata (formerly Calcutta), India, commemorates him. The school from which Aligarh Muslim University evolved was named behind him as Minto Circle after his generous funding for the construction of the new school buildings.

Minto Road, an area where most of the ministers of Bangladesh government have their official residence, is named after Lord Minto.

Minto Hospital and Minto Park (now officially renamed but popularly still known as such) in Lahore were also named after him.

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