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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 | Morton | | First Name(s) | Gerald De Courcy | | Titles, Honours, etc. | Sir | | Birth Year | 1845 | | Entry | Born Feb. 7, 1845 : Maj -General : son of T. C. Morton : educated at Eton and Sandhurst : entered the Army, 1863 : A.D.C. and Private Secretary to Lieutenant-Governor of the Panjab, 1871-77 : in the Afghan war, 1878-80, as Brigade Major in the Kabul Field Force, and in the Kabul- Kandahar march and battle of Kandahar : A.A.G., Oudh and India, 1883-9 : commanded 1st Batt. Munster Fusiliers, 1889-91 : Brig-General in Bundelkund, 1891-5 : Adjutant-General, India, 1895-8 : commanded Lahore District, 1898-02 : commanding Dublin District since 1902 : C.B., 1893 : K.C.I.E., 1899 : C.V.O., 1903. |
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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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