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Date transcribed2011-08-00
Transcribed byPeter Bailey
CommentNote that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name patterns established by Buckland in his original work.

Surname  Mcleod    
First Name(s)  Donald Friell    
Titles, Honours, etc.  Sir    
Birth Year  1810    
Death Year  1872    
Entry  Lieutenant-Governor : son of Lt-General Duncan McLeod : born May 6, 1810, at Fort William, Calcutta : educated at Edinburgh High School, Dulwich, Putney, and Haileybury : arrived in Bengal in 1828, commencing his career in , that province : in the Sagar and Nerbudda territories and Benares, 1831-49 : Commissioner of Jalandhar, 1849 : Judicial Commissioner of the Panjab, 1854 : was at Lahore during the mutiny of 1857 : C.B. : Lieutenant-Governor of the Panjab, 1865-70 : K.C.S.L in 1866 : Chairman of the Sind, Panjab and Delhi Railway : he had pronounced religious opinions, and was a philanthropist : established the Panjab University, and had warm sympathy with the people : he advocated a greater encouragement of ""Oriental studies, and the promotion of the acquisition of Western knowledge through the vernacular"". Sir John Lawrence called him "" cunctator "" : he died from the effects of an accident on the London Underground Railway, Nov. 28, 1872.     
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