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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. | 845 |  | Surname | Probyn | | | Christian Names | William George | | | Dates at Haileybury | 1844-46 | | | Presidency | Bengal  | | | Career in India | 1847-77 | | | Annuitant | 1877 | | | Final Appointment 1 | Judge of Saharanpur | | | Mutiny Service | Was officiating as Magistrate of Farruckabad, and did his best to maintain order. For a while he was successful, but the district became more and more disorganized, and on the approach of the mutineers from Bareilly and Shahjehanpore it was decided to send away the non-combatants by boat. Probyn had intended to remain in his district to the last, but the party refused to depart without him, and he therefore set off with them on the night of June 3. Next morning they were overtaken by two Officers of the 10th Native Infantry, who reported that the Regiment had mutinied and fired on its Officers. The party then divided, most going down the Ganges to Cawnpore, where they were murdered, and about forty, with whom was Probyn, going up the Ram Gunja to Dharmpore in Oudh, about ten miles from Farruckabad. Hearing that the l0th Native Infantry professed to have returned to its allegiance, Probyn and the two Officers returned to Futtehgurh, but after three days he again went to Dharmpore, as martial law had been proclaimed in the district and he knew that the Sepoys were faithless. The few Officers at Dharmpore, considering the fort there untenable and trusting that the 10th might yet remain staunch, returned to Futtehgurh on June 11. This was strongly against Probyn's advice, and events proved how fatally they were deceived. Probyn, feeling that all was lost and that he could do no more in his district, remained at Dharmpore with his family and W. Edwards. There they were loyally protected by Raja Hardeo Baksh in the face of repeated demands for their surrender from the Nawab of Farruckabad on the one side and the insurgents at Lucknow on the other; and after nearly three months of privation passed safely down the Ganges to Cawnpore. Probyn was afterwards stationed at Futtehpore as Magistrate, where he saw much service with various military Columns, notably at Khujwa, .where the Dinapore Brigade was defeated by a force of 500 men under command of Col. Powell, H.M's. 53rd Regiment, after a desperate engagement, in which Col. Powell and many others lost their lives; and with Col. Barker's Column in the south and south-east of the district. |
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