Birch, Richard James Holwell, Sir, 1803-1875, Knight, army officer in India

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1821-1823 ensign, Bengal native infantry; 1823-1824 student Trinity College, Cambridge; 1824 resumed army career; deputy judge-advocate-general, Meerut; assistant secretary, military department, Calcutta; 1841 judge-advocate general, Bengal; 1845-1846 served in the First Anglo-Sikh War; c 1845 lieutenant colonel; 1849 served in the Second Anglo-Sikh War and was made a CB; 1850 served as a brigadier-general at Kohat Pass; 1852-1861 secretary, the military department, the Indian government; 1854 colonel; 1860 KCB; 1861 returned to Britain; 1862 lieutenant-general.

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creatorOf Vol. XXXI (ff. 233). 1850, 1851.includes:ff. 1-4b Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Maughan, Sind Baggage Corps: Letters, etc., to Sir C. J. Napier: 1850, 1852. ff. 5-6b Colonel George Borlase Tramenheere, Bengal Engineers: Memorandum by: 1850. ff. 5-6b Ci..., 1850-1851 British Library
referencedIn Vol. VIII (ff. 420). July-Oct. 1844.India: Correspondence of successive Presidents of the Board of Control with the Prime Minister.: 1841-1846.Edward Law, 2nd Baron and (1844) 1st Earl of Ellenborough: Correspondence with Lord Ripon: 1841-1846.includ... British Library
creatorOf CORRESPONDENCE AND PAPERS OF FIELD MARSHAL SIR CHARLES HENRY BROWNLOW, G.C.B. (b. 1831, d. 1916), mostly relating to campaigns on the North-West Frontier; 1851-1876. See History of the 20th (Duke of Cambridge's Own) Infantry, Brownlow's Punjabis, 191..., 1851-1876 British Library
referencedIn Three letters, dated 1857, received by Maj-Gen (later Sir) John Bennet Hearsey (1793-1865), Bengal Army 1807, Divisional Commander at Barrackpore 1857, from Maj-Gen Sir Hugh Massy Wheeler, Divisional Commander at Cawnpore (22 Mar), Lord Canning (30 M..., 1857 British Library
referencedIn ROSE PAPERS. Vol. XXXVI (ff. 220). Correspondence of Lord Strathnairn during various commands in India; 1857-1864.Hugh Henry Rose, Baron Strathnairn: Correspondence and papers: 1834-1885.includes:ff. 1, 6 Sir Robert North Collie Hamilton, 6th Baronet..., 1857-1864 British Library
referencedIn PAPERS relating to the Indian Mutiny, 3 Feb. 1857-21 Mar. 1867, being mainly letters, with correspondence enclosed, from Major-General Sir J[ohn] B[ennettl Hearsey, K.C.B., commanding the Presidency Division of the East India Co.'s Army at Barrackpor... British Library
referencedIn Vol. VIII (ff. 405). 1860, 1861.includes:f. 1 Field-Marshal Sir Colin Campbell, Baron Clyde KCB: Correspondence with Lt.-Col. H. Bruce: 1857-1860. ff. 1, 4, 15, 18, 23, 312, 326, 351 Colonel Anthony Coningham Sterling, KCB 1860: Letters to Lt.-Col. ..., 1860-1861 British Library
referencedIn Vol. IX (ff. 449). Nov.-Dec. 1844.India: Correspondence of successive Presidents of the Board of Control with the Prime Minister.: 1841-1846.Edward Law, 2nd Baron and (1844) 1st Earl of Ellenborough: Correspondence with Lord Ripon: 1841-1846.includes... British Library
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