Publications
> Book indexes
 Schools and Colleges |
|
 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.
This book can be found online. To find out more visit our fibiwiki page on Books online containing strong Biographical Interest |
| | No. | 777 |  | Surname | Spankie | | | Christian Names | Robert | | | Dates at Haileybury | 1842-43 | | | Presidency | Bengal  | | | Career in India | 1844-82 | | | Annuitant | 1882 | | | Final Appointment 1 | Judge of High Court N[orth ] W[est ] P[rovinces] | | | Mutiny Service | Magistrate of Seharanpore, which has been styled the bulwark of the Hill Stations of Mussoorie and Landour, with their large European population entirely dependent on the Plains for the common necessaries of life, as the Deyra Doon, lying at the foot of the Hills between them and Seharanpore, is not self-supporting. Thus, on Spankie holding his district depended the safety of the Hill Stations. So effectually did he do this, and that under circumstances of extreme difficulty, that he made law respected throughout the district and preserved life and property within and beyond it to an almost inestimable extent. For had the rebels mastered Seharunpore, the Hill Stations and the Doon must have been at their mercy, with their large and helpless English population, consisting for the most part of women and children, the families of Officers doing duty in the Plains. While he gallantly stood to his post, where his personal presence was indispensable, he found means to send aid to the authorities in the Doon and the adjoining district of Mozuffernugur, not only in money and supplies, but also of reliable men. He also sent men and materials to Dehli for the Engineer Park, which service was specially acknowledged by Colonel Baird Smith, the Officer in charge. |
| |
<< first
< previous
next >
last >>
|
|
|
Search Births & Baptisms
text size
