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 Dictionary of Indian Biography A to C

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Date transcribed2011-01-01
Transcribed byPeter Bailey
CommentNote that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name pattern established by Buckland in his original work.

Surname  Arbuthnot    
First Name(s)  Sir Charles George    
Year of Birth  1824    
Year of Death  1899    
Entry  Son of the Bishop of Killaloe, and brother of Sir A. J. Arbuthnot (q.v.) : born May 19, 1824 : educated at Rugby and the R.M.A., Woolwich : entered the Royal Artillery 1843 : served in the Crimea : became Lt-Colonel 1864 : went to India in 1868 : C.B., 1871 : D.A.G. of Artillery, 1873-7: Inspr-General of Artillery in India, 1877-80 : in the second Afghan War was employed as Brig-General, first in the Kandahar Field force and later in the Khyber : K.C.B. in 1881 : D.A.G. of Artillery in England, 1880-3 : Inspr-General of Artillery, 1883 : and President of the Ordnance Committee, 1885 : in 1886 was made C. in C. Bombay, and transferred to Madras in the same year : succeeded Lord Roberts in the command in Burma in 1887 : retired from Madras in 1891 : General, 1890 : G.C.B., 1894 : died April 14, 1899.     
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