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Dictionary of Indian Biography M to R
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 | Melville | | First Name(s) | Henry | | Titles, Honours, etc. | Third Viscount Dundas, | | Birth Year | 1801 | | Death Year | 1876 | | Entry | General : born Feb. 25, 1801 : son of the second Viscount and grandson of the first Viscount Melville {q.v.) : entered the Army, 1819 : commanded the 83rd regt. in Canada, 1837-81 and the Bombay column of the Panjab Army, at the siege of Multan and at Gujarat, 1848-9: C.B. and thanks of Parliament and the E. I. Co. : succeeded as Peer, 1851 : commanded in Scotland, 1856 : Governor of Edinburgh Castle, 1860 : G.C.B. 1865 : A.D.C. to King William IV and Queen Victoria ; died Feb. 1, 1876. |
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A List of eminent persons who served in British India, together with short biographical notes of each
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