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| 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 | Pollock | | | First Name(s) | George | | | Titles, Honours, etc. | Sir, Baronet | | | Birth Year | 1786 | | | Death Year | 1872 | | | Entry | Field Marshal : son of David Pollock of Charing Cross, saddler to Geo. Ill : born June 4, 1786 : educated at Vauxhall and the R.M.A., Woolwich : joined the E. I. Co.'s Bengal Artillery in 1803 : in Lord Lake's Army against Holkar, in 1804 : was at the siege and occupation of Deeg, Dec. 25, 1804 : at the siege of Bhartpur, 1805 : commanded the Artillery in the Nipal war, 1814-5, in one of the Divisions : Brig-Major of the Bengal Artillery : Brevet-Major, 1819 : in the Burmese war of 1824-6, commanding Artillery, at Prome, Maloun, and Yandaboo : C.B. : Brig-General at Dinapur, 1838 : commanded Agra District : Maj-General, 1838 : at Peshawar in Feb. 1842, in command of the expedition to relieve Sale at Jalalabad, forced the Khyber with his Army of Retribution, and relieved Sale on April 16 : when ordered by Lord Ellenborough to withdraw from Afghanistan, he remonstrated, and was allowed to advance at his own discretion, and with Nott to retire to India by way of Kabul : he defeated the Afghans at Mamu Kheyl, Jagdalak, Tezin : entered Kabul on Sep. 16, where Nott joined him directly : the British captives, officers, women and children, in the hands of Akbar Khan, came from Bamian into Pollock's camp on Sep. 22 : finally defeated the Afghans at Istalif on Sep. 29 : destroyed the Kabul bazar, leaving the city, Oct. 12, to return to India : Lord Ellenborough received the victorious army at Firozpur on Dec. 19 : Pollock was made G.C.B. and given the command of a Division : acting Resident at Lucknow, 1843 : Military Member of the Supreme Council, from Sep. 20, 1844, to March 31, 1847, when he resigned : the E. I. Co. gave him a pension of £1,000 a year : Lt-General, 1851 : Government Director of the E. I. Co., 1854 : General, 1859 : K.C.S.I., 1861 : G.C.S.I., 1866 : Field Marshal, 1870 : Constable of the Tower of London, 1871 : Baronet of the Khyber Pass in 1872 : died Oct. 6, 1872 : buried in Westminster Abbey. |
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