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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  Phayre    
First Name(s)  Arthur Purves    
Titles, Honours, etc.  Sir    
Birth Year  1812    
Death Year  1885    
Entry  Born May 7, 1812 : son of Richard Phayre : educated at Shrewsbury : entered the Bengal Army, 1828 : served in the administration of Burma, 1834-48 : in the Panjab, 1848-9 : Commissioner of Arakan, 1849, and of Pegu, 1852 : read the Proclamation announcing the annexation of the new territory : Interpreter to the King of Burma's mission to the Governor-General, 1854, to whom Dalhousie said : ""As long as the sun shines in the heavens, the British flag shall wave 336 DICTIONARY OF INDIAN BIOGRAPHY over those possessions : led a mission to the Burmese Court at Amarapura, 1855 : Lt-Colonel, 1859 : joined the Bengal Staff Corps, 1861 : the first Chief Commissioner of British Burma, 1862-7 : C.B., 1863 : went on two other missions: in 1862 and 1866, to Mandalay, then in Upper Burma : K.C.S.I., 1867 : Lt-General, 1877 : Governor of the Mauritius,1874-8 : G.C.M.G., 1878 : wrote his History of Burma, 1883, a work on Burmese coins, and papers for the Asiatic and Royal Geographical Societies : died Dec. 14, 1885,    
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