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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	Ricketts
	First Name(s)	George Henry Mildmay
	Birth Year	1827
	Entry	l.C.S. : son of Sir H. Ricketts, K.C.S.I. (q.v.): born June 20, 1827: educated at Winchester and Haileybury : began his service in Bengal in 1847 : went to the Panjab in 1853 : in the mutiny was Deputy Commissioner of Ludiana, and with 2 guns and a small force of the 4th Sikhs, in June, 1857, fought a body of mutineers from Jalandhar at the crossing of the Satlaj near Philour : this was one of the first occasions on which the mutineers were met successfully. C.B. for his mutiny services : Member of the Board of Revenue, N.W. P. : retired, 1879.

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