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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 | Peyton | | First Name(s) | Francis | | Birth Year | 1823 | | Death Year | 1905 | | Entry | Born May 27, 1823 : son of Rev. Algernon Peyton : educated at Eton : entered the Army, 1841 : served in China war, 1842 : Panjab campaign, 1848 : at the forcing of the Kohat Pass, 1850 : in the Peshawar expeditionary force under Sir Sydney Cotton on the Yusafzai frontier, and at Sitana, 1858 : in the mutiny in the Peshawar Division : commanded Lichfield District, 1878 : Shorncliffe Camp, 1877 : 2nd and 3rd Brigades at Aldershot, 1877-81 : Lt-General : C.B. : died Feb. 1905. |
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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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