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Dictionary of Indian Biography (Buckland) |
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Dictionary of Indian Biography A to C
Date transcribed | 2011-01-01 | Transcribed by | Peter Bailey | Comment | Note that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name pattern established by Buckland in his original work. |
| Surname | Anson | | First Name(s) | Hon. George | | Year of Birth | 1797 | | Year of Death | 1857 | | Entry | General : second son of the first Viscount Anson : served at Waterloo in the Guards : was M.P. from 1818 for many years : in 1853, appointed to command a Division in India : C. in C. Madras, 1854, and C. in C. in India, 1856 : was at Simla when the mutiny broke out in May, 1857, and hastened down to the plains : while on the march from Umbala to Delhi with a force, he died of cholera at Karnal, .May 27, 1857. |
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A List of eminent persons who served in British India, together with short biographical notes of each
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