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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)  Robert    
Titles, Honours, etc.  Sir    
Birth Year  1820    
Death Year  1897    
Entry  Born Jan. 22, 1820 : son of Richard Phayre, and brother of Sir Arthur P. Phayre {q.v.) : educated at Shrewsbury :entered the E. I. Co.'s service, 1839, in Bombay : in the first Afghan war : in Beluchistan : in the Sind campaign, 1843 : at Miani : in the Persian war, 1857 : Q.M.G. of the Bombay Army, in the mutiny, 1857-68 : Major, Bombay Staff Corps, 1861 : Q.M.G. in Abyssinia : C.B. : A.D.C. to Queen Victoria : commanded the Sind frontier force, 1868-72 : Resident at Baroda, 1873 : charged the Gaekwar with maladministration : Phayre's life attempted by poison, Nov. 9, 1874 : the Gaekwar was tried and deposed, 1875 : Phayre returned to military employ : commanded the Reserve Division in the Afghan war, 1879-80: K.C.B., 1881 : commanded a Division of the Bombay Army, 188 1-6 : retired, 1886 : General, 1889 : G.C.B., 1894 : died Jan. 28, 1897.    
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