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 Memorials of Old Haileybury College
| Date transcribed | 2000-00-00 | | Transcribed by | Benda Cook | | Comment | Publication Date: 1894
Author: F. C. Danvers, Sir M Monier -Williams, Sir S. C. Bayley, P. Wigram, the late Brand Sapte, and many contributors.
Publisher Constable & Co.: Westminster
British Library: OIR 354.54 Held in the Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections.
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| | No. | 623 |  | Surname | Greathead | | | Christian Names | Henry Harris | | | Dates at Haileybury | 1834-35 | | | 2nd Term | Mathematics, Law Prizes | | | 3rd Term | Mathematics, Persian Prizes | | | 4th Term | Mathematics, Law, Hist & Pol Econ Medals; Persian, Classics Prizes | | | Presidency | Bengal  | | | Career in India | 1836-57 | | | Place of Death | Died before Delhi | | | Date of Death | 1857 Sep 19 | | | Final Appointment 1 | Commissioner of Meerut | | | Mutiny Service | Commissioner of Meerut. He and his family had a very narrow escape with their lives on the night of May 10. Warned.of the outbreak, he had taken his wife and some other English women who had sought safety with them to the roof of his house. But the insurgents set fire to the lower part of the building, plundered the rooms and then surrounded the place. With the flames raging beneath and the enemy in crowds around their position was one of deadly peril, and they must have perished miserably but for a native servant who simulated intense sympathy with the rebels. He told them his master had escaped and offered to show them the spot where he was concealed, and so led them away from the house. Greathed and his companions descended into the garden just as the roof fell in with a tremendous crash. Greathed proceeded with the troops under Wilson to Dehli, and was present at the battles on the Hindan. He remained in camp throughout the siege and lived long enough to witness our troops enter the city, but he fell a victim to cholera on Sept. 19, one day before the work was completed, and thus was lost to the Service a very meritorious Officer. |
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