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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  O'Shaughnessy    
First Name(s)  William Brooke    
Titles, Honours, etc.  Sir    
Birth Year  1809    
Death Year  1889    
Entry  Son of David O'Shaughnessy : born at Limerick in 1809 : educated at Edinburgh University : M.D., 1830 : went to Bengal in the E. I. Co.'s Medical Service, 1833 : Surgeon-Major, 1861 : Professor of Chemistry at the Medical College, Calcutta : appointed Director-General of Telegraphs in India, 1853 : rapidly laid down lines to Agra, Bombay, Madras, Peshawar : in the mutiny, Sir John Lawrence said : The telegraph saved India : knighted in 1856 : retired, 1860 : Lord Canning, in a minute on his departure, referred to his ability and energy in extending and maintaining the gigantic work of the Indian telegraphs, with which his name is associated, and recorded a high appreciation of his services : F.R.S., 1843 : assumed the name of Brooke : wrote books on chemistry and medicine : died Jan. 10, 1889.     
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