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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. | 533 |  | Surname | Thornton | | | Christian Names | Edward | | | Decorations | CB | | | Dates at Haileybury | 1828-29 | | | 1st Term | Classics, Persia Prizes | | | 4th Term | Classics Medal; Persian, Hindustani Prizes | | | Presidency | Bengal  | | | Career in India | 1830-62 | | | Annuitant | 1862 | | | Final Appointment 1 | Commissioner of Jhilam; Judicial Commissioner, Punjab | | | Mutiny Service | Commissioner of Rawal Pindi, where there was much anxious work. Mentioned especially by Malleson for arresting the leaders of revolt in Hazara. When the troops at Rawal Pindi were disarmed, Thornton and A. Brandreth joined the Officers and, at the risk of their lives, rode up and down among the men for a full half-hour trying, with success in the end, to persuade them to lay down their arms and submit. Not only were they in danger from the men, but at one moment, a shot having been fired, the Artillery were on the point of opening fire on them and were only just stopped in time. |
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