Mark Cubbon (army officer)
Lieutenant-General Sir Mark Cubbon KCB was a British army officer with the East India Company who was the Chief Commissioner of Mysore 1834 to 1861. During his tenure, he established a law and order system, introduced judicial and economic reforms and through action in all spheres of governance helped develop the economy of Mysore. He resigned from his office in 1860 due to ill-health and left for England for the first time since his arrival in India as a cadet in 1800. The administration of the Kingdom of Mysore under his leadership ensured that the 1857 rebellion had almost no impact in the region. He died in 1861 on board ship at Suez. Cubbon Road and Cubbon Park in Bangalore are named after him.
Mark Cubbon (army officer)
Public Offices, now the High Court, with an equestrian statue of Sir Mark Cubbon in Bangalore (1890)
Engraving by F.C. Lewis (senior) showing the Dusserah Darbar of Krishnaraja Wadiyar III (c. 1850) and Cubbon seated to the right next to the steps leading to the throne. Next to him are Lady Montgomery and Hugh Gough.
Inauguration of the statue on the parade grounds
The Mysore Commission, also known as commissioners' rule or simply the Commission Rule, was a period and form of government in the history of the Kingdom of Mysore and the neighbouring province of Coorg from 1831 to 1881 when British commissioners administered the kingdom due to the deposition of Maharaja Krishnaraja Wodeyar III and later due to minority of Yuvaraja Chamaraja Wadiyar X. A board of commissioners constituted the chief executive body and provincial head of the kingdom's government. The commission began with uninstallation of Krishnaraja Wodeyar III as King in 1831 and ended with investing Chamaraja Wadiyar X as King in 1881.
The young infant prince Krishnaraja Wadiyar III
An aged Krishnaraja Wadiyar III, the epicentre for the institution of the Commissioners' Rule
The newly installed Maharaja of Mysore Chamaraja Wadiyar X at the end of the Mysore Commission
William Bentinck