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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. | 627 |  | Surname | Gubbins de Kilfrush | | | Christian Names | Frederick Bebb | | | Decorations | CB | | | Dates at Haileybury | 1834-35 | | | 4th Term | Persian, Hindustani Prizes | | | Presidency | Bengal  | | | Career in India | 1836-62 | | | Annuitant | 1862 | | | Final Appointment 1 | Commissioner of Benares | | | Mutiny Service | Judge of Benares, having previously held with conspicuous ability the post of Magistrate at that Station. He and his successor as Magistrate, F. M. Lind, rendered excellent service, having great influence with the natives. They had to contend against the disloyalty of the garrison and the turbulence of the city people, and were several times, in common with the rest of the residents, in imminent danger. Gubbins was very active in forwarding the troops up country as they arrived from England, never thinking of detaining a man and perfectly unmindful of his own difficulties. When it was proposed, as it seriously was at one time, to retire to Chunar, Gubbins and Lind so strenuously opposed the idea that it was abandoned, and what would have been a fatal step prevented. His friendship with Raja Deo Narain Sinh, a most influential man in the city, was so great that the latter actually left his own house to live with Gubbins, and was of the greatest assistance in controlling the merchants of the city for good. And but for Gubbins it may be doubted whether the Sikh State prisoner, Surat Sinh, would have exerted himself as he did to keep faithful the Sikh Guard at the Treasury when the rest of the Regiment had been fired on and dispersed on parade. All the non-combatants of the Station were collected there and at their mercy. |
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