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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 | Nugent | | First Name(s) | George | | Titles, Honours, etc. | Sir, Baronet | | Birth Year | 1757 | | Death Year | 1849 | | Entry | Field Marshal : born June 10, 1757 : son of Lt-General Honble. E. C. Nugent : educated at Charterhouse and R.M.A., Woolwich : entered the Army, 1773 : served in several Royal regiments during the American war : in the campaign in Flanders, 1793 : Adjt-General in Ireland, 1798-1801 : raised a corps of 600 in Buckinghamshire : M.P. for Buckingham, 1790-1800 and 1819-32, and for Aylesbury, 1806-7: Maj-General, 1796 : Lieutenant- Governor and C. in C, Jamaica, 1801-6 : Baronet, 1806: C. in C. in India, 1811-3 : General, 1813 : G.C.B., 1815 : D.C.L. : Colonel of the 6th regt. : Field Marshal, 1846: died March 10, 1849. |
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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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