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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  Roberts    
First Name(s)  Henry Gee    
Titles, Honours, etc.  Sir    
Birth Year  1800    
Death Year  1860    
Entry  Maj-General : born July 18, 1800 : son of William Roberts M.B. of Gloucester, and grandson of W. Roberts : President of Magdalen College, Cambridge; entered the E. I. Co.'s Bombay military service, 1818 : Captain, 1824 : commanded Cutch Irregular Horse, 1825 : and employed politically as Assistant to the Resident : commanded a regiment of Irregular Cavalry in Gujarat, till 1841 : Lt-Colonel in the Sind campaign, 1843, commanding at Sukkur : denuded himself of troops there, in order to reinforce Sir C. Napier for Miani, which the latter fully acknowledged as contributing greatly to his success: Resident in Cutch : described in 1851, by Sir C. Napier, as the best officer in the Bombay Army, and perhaps in India, of his rank : and, later, as capable of commanding any Army in the field : in the mutiny, commanded the N. Division of the Bombay Army and in 1858 the Rajputana Field Force : took Kotah by assault, March, 1858, and 75 guns : defeated Tantia Topi on several occasions, at Sanganir, at Kankrauli, on the Banas, etc. : commanded in Gujarat : Maj- General : K.C.B., 1859 : retired, 1859 : died Oct. 6, 1860.     
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