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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  Baker    
First Name(s)  Sir Thomas Durand    
Year of Birth  1837    
Year of Death  1893    
Entry  Son of Rev. John Durand Baker, Vicar of Bishop's Pawton, Devon : born March 23, 1837 : educated at Cheltenham : entered the 18th Royal Irish regt., 1854 : served in the Crimea, 1854-6 : in the Indian mutiny was with the Central India Field Force : passed the Staff College, 1862 : in the New Zealand war, 1863-67 : was Assistant Adjutant and Q.M.G. in Ashanti Expedition, 1873-4, and Chief of the Staff : C.B. : A.D.C. to the Queen : attached to the Russian Army during the Russo-Turkish war, 1877 : Military Secretary to Lord Lytton, Viceroy of India, 1878 : in 1879, commanded a Brigade under Lord Roberts, through the Kuram to Kabul, commanded at Charasia Oct. 6, 1879, and was engaged in many of the fights near Kabul : was in Lord Roberts' Kabul- Kandahar march, Aug., 1880, and the battle of Kandahar : K.C.B. 1881 : in the Boer War 1881 as Brig-General : in 1884 was Adjutant-General in India : in the Burmese expedition, 1886-7 : commanded a Division in Bengal, 1887-90 : Q.M.G. of the Army, 1890 : Lt-General, 1891 : died at Pau, Feb. 9 1893.     
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