Kemball, Arnold Burrowes, Sir, 1820-1908, Knight, army and political officer

1836-1837 entered Addiscombe military college; 1837 Bombay artillery, second lieutenant; 1839-1842 served in the First Anglo-Afghan War; 1841 first lieutenant; 1842- assistant political agent in the Persian Gulf; 1851 captain; 1856-1857 served in the Anglo-Persian War; 1858 brevet major and CB; 1859-1868 consul-general at Baghdad; 1860 lieutenant-colonel; 1863 colonel; 1866 KCSI; 1868 major-general; 1873 attached to the Shah of Persia for his visit to England; 1875 British delegate on the international commission on the Turco-Persian frontier; 1876-1877 military commissioner with the Turkish army for the war between Turkey and Serbia; 1877 president of the international commission to determine the frontier between Turkey and Serbia; 1877-1878 military commissioner with the Turkish army in Asia for the Russo-Turkish War; 1877 lieutenant-general; 1878 KCB and colonel-commandant, the Royal artillery at Woolwich; 1880 general.

Epithet: army and political officer

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