ABSTRACT
Northcote (1818–1887), a Conservative MP for Iddesleigh, was the head of the parliamentary commission investigating this matter; though accepting that the famine response in Orissa was disastrous, he essentially declined to cast blame on Beadon or Lawrence. Thus, MP Seymour’s fear that the Commission would just whitewash governmental action and inaction in Orissa had come to pass. Northcote says little to nothing about the people of India and what the British owed them in the case of such a calamity.224
