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Lord Mountbatten

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Louis Francis Albert Victor Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma (June 25, 1900 - August 27, 1979), was a British politician. He was the last Viceroy of India, and First Sea Lord.

He was born in Windsor Castle, in England.

In his position as Viceroy of India, he oversaw the granting of independence to that country.

On August 27, 1979, he was killed by a bomb in Donegal Bay, Ireland, along with his elder daughter's mother-in-law Lady Brabourne (aged 82), their grandson Nicholas Knatchbull (aged 14), and crew member Paul Mazwell (aged 15). The bomb was attributed to the Irish Republican Army, or IRA.

Further reading

  • Mountbatten: the official biography, by Philip Ziegler (Collins, 1985)
  • Eminent Churchillians, by Andrew Roberts (Phoenix Press, 1994). The author states that it "makes the case for the impeachment of the last Viceroy of India, on the grounds that his cheating over the India-Pakistan frontier and his headlong rush towards partition led to around one million deaths in Punjab and the North-West Frontier in 1947-48".
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