Papers of Maj-Gen Sir Frederic Goldsmid, Madras Army 1839-75, including material relating to his work on the Perso-Baluch and Perso-Afghanistan boundaries 1836-1899

Aitchison, C. U. (Charles Umpherston), Sir, 1832-1896

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1856 joined the Indian Civil Service; 1857 assistant in Hissar; 1859-1865 under-secretary, political department, government of India; 1865-1868 deputy commissioner, Lahore; 1868-1878 foreign secretary, government of India; 1878-1881 chief commissioner of British Burma; 1882-1887 lieutenant-governor of the Punjab; 1886 founded Aitchison College, Lahore; 1887-1888 joined the council of the governor-general of India. Epithet: administrator in India Title: Knigh...

Abbott, James, Sir, 1807-1896

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1823 second lieutenant, Bengal artillery; 1827 lieutenant; 1835-1836 revenue survey of Gorakhpur; 1836 in charge of the revenue survey of Bareilly; 1838 brevet captain; 1838-1839 joined the army of the Indus under Sir John Keane; 1839 assistant political officer to Major Elliot D'Arcy; 1841 captain; 1841 appointed second in command of the Merwara local battalion; 1841 assistant to Captain Dixon, superintendent, Merwara local battalion; 1842 assistant to the resident at Indore; 1847-...

Vaughan, John Luther, Sir, active 1851-1876, General GCB

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Epithet: General GCB British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000750.0x0003c7 Epithet: General British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001512.0x0003a9 ...

Smith, William Sidney, Sir, Admiral GCB

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Epithet: Admiral British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001512.0x00015e Epithet: Admiral GCB British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000543.0x0000a4 ...

Curzon, George Nathaniel, , 1859-1925

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George Nathaniel Curzon was born at Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire, in 1859. He was educated at Eton College and Balliol College, Oxford. In 1885, he was appointed assistant private secretary to the Marquis of Salisbury and in the same year contested the parliamentary seat for South Derbyshire. In 1886, he was elected Conservative Member of Parliament for the Southport division of Lancashire, serving between 1891 and 1892 as under-secretary of state for India, and from 1895 to 1898, as ...

Lovett, Beresford

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Epithet: Major-General British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001347.0x000306 ...

Green, William Henry Rodes, Sir, 1823-1912, Knight, army officer in India

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1841 joined the Indian army; 1846 joined the Sind Irregular Horse; 1848-1849 served in the Second Anglo-Sikh War; 1853-1856 special duty under HM Foreign Office as colonel in the Turkish army during the Crimean War (1853-1856); 1855 major; 1857-1858 served during the Indian Mutiny; 1859 political agent, Baloochistan and conducted an expedition against the Murree tribe; c 1859 acting chief commissioner, Sind; 1859 CB; 1860-1868 political superintendent and commandant, North Western F...

Napier, Robert Cornelis, 1810-1890

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1826 commissioned as a second-lieutenant; 1827 lieutenant; 1828 Bengal Sappers and Miners; 1829-1830 commanding a company at Delhi; 1830 sick leave at Mussooree; 1831-1836 assistant on the Great Eastern Jumna Canal project; 1836-1838 furlough; 1838-1840 acting executive engineer in the Barisal division of eastern Bengal; 1840 executive engineer of the Sirhind division; 1841 second-captain; 1842-1845 oversaw building of Ambala Cantonment; 1845-1846 chief engineer in army of the Sutle...

Pollock, Frederick Richard, Sir, Major-General

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Outram, James, Sir, 1803-1863

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Lt.-General. Commanded two Divisions of the Bengal Army in the Mutiny, and accompanied the relief column to Lucknow. On the second relief, in November, Outram retired to the Alambagh and held it until the final capture of Lucknow in March, 1858. From the description of Letters, 1849-1865. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122524234 1819 cadet, ensign in 4th native infantry, transferred to 1st grenadier native infantry, then 12th regiment; 1820 acting-adjutant; 1824...

Pearse, Hugh Wodehouse, Colonel

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Epithet: Colonel British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001440.0x00017e ...

Merewether, William Lockyer, Sir, 1825-1880, Knight, army officer and administrator in India

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1841 entered Bombay Army as a second-lieutenant; 1843 served with the 21st Bombay native infantry in the conquest of Sindh; ? 1843 appointed to the Sind irregular horse; 1848-1849 served with the army of the Punjab in the Second Anglo-Sikh War; 1856 brevet captain; 1859 commandant of Sind irregular horse; 1860 CB; 1861 military secretary to the government of Bombay; 1863 political agent at Aden; 1867 commander of pioneer force in Abyssinia, lieutenant-colonel; 1868 KCSI, brevet colo...

Haggard, Henry, Sir

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Halifax, Charles Wood, Viscount, 1800-1885

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1826 Member of Parliament for Great Grimsby; 1831 Member of Parliament for Wareham; 1832-1865 Member of Parliament for Halifax; 1832 Joint Secretary to the Treasury; 1835 Secretary to the Admiralty; 1846-1852 Chancellor of the Exchequer; 1852-1855 President of the Board of Control; 1855-1858 First Lord of the Admiralty; 1856 GCB; 1859-1866 Secretary of State for India; 1865 Member of Parliament for Ripon; 1870-1874 Lord Privy Seal. Epithet: statesman Title: 1...

Goldsmid, F. J. (Frederic John), 1818-1908

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1839 ensign, East India Company army, 37th Madras native infantry; 1840 lieutenant; 1851 captain; 1856 brevet major; 1863 brevet lieutenant-colonel; 1864 major; 1865 lieutenant-colonel; 1865-1870 director-general, Indo European Telegraph; 1870 colonel; 1875 major-general on retirement; 1880 controller of the crown lands, Daira Sanieh, Egypt; 1883 administrateur délégué de l'association internationale, the Congo; 1885-1887 secretary, Royal Asiatic Society; 1890-1805 vice-president, R...

Broadfoot, William, Major

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Bell, Mark S. (Mark Sever), 1843-1906

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1862-1900 army officer; 1862 joined the Royal Engineers; 1865-1866 served in the Bhuntan Campaign, assistant field engineer, command of Royal Engineers and Bengal Sappers and Miners; 1873-1874 served in the Second Ashanti War as adjutant, Royal Engineers brigade and special service officer; 1874 captain and VC; 1880-1885 assistant quartermaster general for Intelligence, Bengal; 1882 major; 1884 brevet lieutenant-colonel; 1885-1888 deputy quartermaster general for intelligence; 1885-...

Gascoyne-Cecil, Robert Arthur Talbot, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury

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Title: 3rd Marquess of Salisbury British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001244.0x000015 Epithet: Viscount Cranborne, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, Prime Minister British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000349.0x000090 ...

Baring, Thomas George, 1826-1904, 1st Earl of Northbrook, Viceroy of India

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1857-1858 Lord of the Admiralty; 1857–1866 MP for Falmouth and Penryn; 1859-1864 under-secretary, India Office; 1861 and 1868-1872 under-secretary, War Office; 1864-1866 under-secretary, Home Office; 1872-1876 viceroy of India; 1880-1885 first lord of the Admiralty. Epithet: Viceroy of India Title: 1st Earl of Northbrook British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000560.0x0003b5 ...

Madras Military Fund (active 1835-1899)

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Madras Army (active 1709-1947)

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Browne, Edward Granville

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Epithet: Professor of Arabic at Cambridge University British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001219.0x0000fd Epithet: Professor British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001394.0x0002c5 ...

Clerk, Claude, 1832-1905, tutor and army officer in India

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1850-1862 Madras Cavalry; 1857 lieutenant; captain; 1876-1887 tutor to the Nizam of Hyderabad; CIE. Epithet: tutor and army officer in India British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001477.0x0000a1 ...