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This civil servant who later became the Governor of Bombay did not approve of Lord Dalhousie's policy of annexation.
Answer: A
The civil servant was Sir George Russel Clerk.
George Russell Clerk, of the East India Company's civil service, served as political agent on the north-western frontier and as Lieutenant-Governor of the North-Western Provinces, and was twice Governor of Bombay (1847-1848 and 1860-1862). The key identifies him as the official who did not approve of Dalhousie's annexations.
The other options fail the first clue, that the man later became Governor of Bombay. Sir Hugh Rose was a soldier who commanded the Central India Field Force against Rani Lakshmibai and Tatya Tope in 1858 and later became Commander-in-Chief; he never governed Bombay. No Colonel Stewart or Major Ellis was ever Governor of Bombay.
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