1847-BOMBAY-THE FIRST EXHIBITION OF ELECTRIC LIGHT WAS DONE BEFORE LORD AND LADY FALKLAND ;GOVERNOR OF BOMBAY ;AT THE TOWN HALL

ARC LIGHT -BEFORE ELECTRIC BULBS WERE INVENTED; LATER BY EDISON IN 1870


Self-regulating arc lamp proposed byWilliam Edwards Staite and William Petrie in 1847

THE TOWN HALL BOMBAY 1847

Governors of Bombay

Names

Assumed Office

Rt. Hon. Viscount Falkland, G.C.H. (Lucius Bentinck Carey, 1803 - 1884)

May 1, 1848

Lucius Bentinck Cary, 10th Viscount Falkland

Lucius Bentinck Cary, 10th Viscount Falkland GCH PC (5 November 1803 – 12 March 1884) was a British colonial administrator and Liberal politician.

Falkland was the son of Charles John Cary, 9th Viscount Falkland, and his wife Christiana. He succeeded as tenth Viscount Falkland in 1808 at the age of five after his father was killed in a duel.LATER 

he was appointed Governor of Bombay, in which post he remained until 1853. He returned to England the same year and later served as a magistrate in Yorkshire.

Lord Falkland married Lady Amelia FitzClarence (21 March 1807 – 2 July 1858 London), the last unmarried illegitimate daughter of King William IV and his mistress, Dorothy Jordan, on 27 December 1830 at the Royal Pavilion. The King gave away the bride and the ceremony was performed by the Bishop of Winchester; they spent their honeymoon at Cumberland Lodge.^[

Falkland, Amelia Fitzclarence, Lady – (1807 – 1858)
British vice-regal figure, traveller and memoirist
Lady Amelia Fitzclarence was born (March 21, 1807) the fifth and youngest illegitimate daughter of King William IV (1830 – 1837), formerly duke of Clarence, and his long-time mistress, the actress Dorothea Jordan (nee Bland). Her eldest brother was George Augustus Frederick Fitzclarence (1794 – 1842), the first Earl of Munster. Amelia was married (1830) to Lucius Bentinck Cary (1803 – 1884), tenth Viscount Falkland, and was the mother of his heir Lucius William Cary (1831 – 1877). Her son was styled master of Falkland, but he predeceased his father. He had married but died childless and the title passed to an uncle.
When her husband was appointed as governor of Bombay in India (1848 – 1853), Lady Falkland accompanied him there. She was intrigued by the life and customs of India, and made several expeditions in the Deccan region. On their return to Britain, the couple visited Egypt and Palestine. Lady Falkland left an account of these travels, which were published in two volumes as, Chow-Chow: Being Selections from a Journal kept in India, Egypt, and Syria (1857). Lady Falkland died (July 2, 1858) aged forty-one.