The idea of having Queen Victoria proclaimed empress of India was not particularly new, as Lord Ellenborough had already suggested it in 1843 upon becoming the governor-general of India. By 1874, Major-General Sir Henry Ponsonby, the Queen's private secretary, had ordered English charters to be scrutinised for imperial titles, with Edgar and Stephen mentioned as sound precedents. The Queen, possibly irritated by the sallies of the republicans, the tendency to democracy, and the realisation that her influence was manifestly on the decline, was urging the move. Another factor may have been that the Queen's first child, Victoria, was married to Frederick, the heir apparent to the German Empire. Upon becoming empress, she would outrank her mother. By January 1876, the Queen's insistence was so great that Benjamin Disraeli felt that he could procrastinate no longer. Initially, Victoria had actually considered the style "Empress of Great Britain, Ireland, and India", but Disraeli had persuaded the Queen to limit the title to India in order to avoid controversy. Hence, the title "Kaisar-i-Hind" was coined in 1876 by the orientalist G.W. Leitner as the official imperial title for the British monarch in India. The term "Kaisar-i-Hind" means emperor of India in the vernacular of the Hindi and Urdu languages. The word "kaisar", meaning 'emperor', is a derivative of the Roman imperial title caesar (via Persian, Turkish – see "Kaiser-i-Rum"), and is cognate with the German title "Kaiser", which was borrowed from the Latin at an earlier date.