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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  Munster    
First Name(s)  George Augustus Frederick Fitzclarence    
Titles, Honours, etc.  First Earl of    
Birth Year  1794    
Death Year  1842    
Entry  Eldest son of the Duke of Clarence, afterwards William IV, by Mrs. Jordan : born in 1794 : educated at Sunbury and Marlow : entered the Army in 1807 : was in the Peninsula, 1808-14 : went to India in 1815 in the 24th Light Dragoons : was A.D.C. to Lord Hastings when Governor-General, in the Mahratta war of 1816-7 : was sent home overland, from Bombay, up the Red Sea, and through Egypt, with the duplicate despatches, announcing peace : was at the defeat of the Pindaris at Jabalpur : left Bombay on Feb. 7, and reached England via Egypt on June 16, 1818 : wrote a narrative of his journey, 1819 : made a Peer in 1830 : Lieutenant of the Tower and Maj -General, 1841 : he steadily supported Oriental studies : was, in 1841, President of the Royal Asiatic Society, and of the Society for the Publication of Oriental texts, and Vice-President of the Oriental Translation Fund : and contemplated a History of the Art of War among Eastern Nations, for which he collected a large mass of materials : he died March 20, 1842.     
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