Lord Mayo, Indian Cotton Trade

Lord Mayo was born in 1822 and died in 1872. England, after the American Civil War, began to rely heavily on India for their raw cotton. Lord Mayo invested alot of money in proper irrigation for cotton plants and railways to get the cotton to Britain quickly. ALthough he was not able to often be in Parliment to loby for India cotton, James Mangles who was a member of parliment representing an area right outside London did loby for Indian Cotton. In fact his son Ross Donelly Mangles later became the chairman of the East India Company. Lord Mayo sadly was murdered in 1872 by a Muslim convict, while he was inspecting a prison. He left India in a surplus and made way for more cotton to be grown and transported. Before Lord Mayo, the main problem with India Cotton is that it just couldnt live up to the American standard. India didnt have proper labor techniques, it had monsoon seasons that would kill the cotton plant, it did not have proper irrigation, the soil did not remain fertile for even a growing season, and they had terrible transportation. Lord Mayo fixed many of these problems.