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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  Pottinger    
First Name(s)  Henry    
Titles, Honours, etc.  Sir    
Birth Year  1789    
Death Year  1856    
Entry  Lt-General and Political : born Oct. 3, 1789 : son of Eldred Curwen Pottinger : educated at Belfast : went to sea and to India to join the marine service, but entered the Army in Bombay in 1806 : was sent on a Mission to Sind in 1808, and in 1810 went in disguise through Sind to Kelat, Nushki, Shiraz, Ispahan, returning via Bagdad and Bussora to Bombay : served at Poona and Cutch : Lt-Colonel, 1829 : again sent on a Mission to Sind, 1831, and Political Agent there, 1836- 40 : made Baronet on April 27, 1840, for services in the first Afghan war : became Maj-General. In 1841 he was sent to China as Envoy, and made the Nanking treaty of peace, 1842 : was made G.CB. : Governor of Hongkong, 1843-4 : Privy Councillor, 1844 : Governor of the Cape of Good Hope, 1846-7, and Governor of Madras, 1848-54 : died March 18, 1856 : wrote Travels in Beluchistan and Sind.     
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