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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. | 690 |  | Surname | Shakespear | | | Christian Names | Alexander | | | Dates at Haileybury | 1839 | | | Presidency | Bengal  | | | Career in India | 1840-73 | | | Annuitant | 1873 | | | Date of Death | 1884 Jul 5 | | | Final Appointment 1 | Commissioner of Benares | | | Mutiny Service | Magistrate of Bijnore, forty miles from Meerut on the left bank of the Ganges. So disturbed did the country become between these two Stations that the news of the outbreak at Meerut on May 10 only reached Bijnore on the 13th, and anarchy rapidly spread through the latter district, notwithstanding Shakespear's gallant endeavours to maintain order. Mahomed Khan, Nawab of Najibabad, was called on to assist the authorities, but he very shortly fell away; and when matters became so serious that the district officers had to escape across the river to Roorkee the Nawab proclaimed the king of Dehli, and gave out that he was holding the district in his name. Shakespear did not remain idle, but took part in several expeditions against refractory villages in the Seharanpore and Mozuffernugur districts, and notably against Mahomed Khan, the rebel Nawab of Nujeebabad, who was routed by a force under Lieutenant Boisragon. He accompanied the troops into Rohilcund under General Coke, to whom he was able to give valuable aid; and he subsequently displayed conspicuous zeal and energy in restoring the district of Bijnore to order. |
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