Phayre, Robert, Sir, 1820-1897, Knight, army officer in India

1839 commissioned ensign in the East India Company (25th Bombay native infantry); 1839-1842 served in First Anglo-Afghan War; 1840 lieutenant; 1843 Sind War; 1848 captain; 1851-1856 worked on mountain roads in southern Maratha; 1856-1857 organized expeditionary force to Persia; 1857-1868 quartermaster-general to the Bombay army; 1857 brevet-major; 1861 major; 1863 brevet lieutenant-colonel; 1867-1868 quartermaster-general of the Abyssinia expedition; 1868 colonel; ? 1868 CB, aide-de-camp to the Queen; 1868-1872 political superintendent of the Sind frontier; 1873-1874 resident at Baroda; 1875-1880 commander of a brigade in Bombay, then in Rajputana; 1880 major-general, served in the Second Anglo-Afghan War; 1881 KCB and lieutenant-general; 1881-1886 commander of a division of the Bombay army; 1889 general; 1894 GCB.

Epithet: army officer in India

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