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Dictionary of Indian Biography M to R

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Date transcribed	2011-08-00
Transcribed by	Peter Bailey
Comment	Note that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name patterns established by Buckland in his original work.

	Surname	Mcmahon
	First Name(s)	Charles Alexander
	Birth Year	1830
	Death Year	1894
	Entry	Son of Capt. Alexander McMahon of the E. I. Co.'s service : born 1830 : reached India in 1847 : was eight years in the Madras N.I. : joined the Panjab Commission in 1856: rose to be Commissioner and officiating Financial Commissioner : Maj-General : retired in 1885. He acted with vigour when the troops at Sealkot mutinied in 1857. He studied geology, petrology and mineralogy, publishing papers on the geology of the Himalayas in the records of the Geological Survey of India. He was a Fellow of the Royal and Geological Societies, and President of the Geological Association in 1894-5 : died Feb. 21, 1904.

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