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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  Bateman-Champain    
First Name(s)  Sir John Underwood    
Year of Birth  1835    
Year of Death  1887    
Entry  Son of Colonel Agnew Champain : born July 22, 1835 : educated at Cheltenham, the Edinburgh Military Academy, and Addiscombe : went to India in the Bengal Engineers, 1854 : in the mutiny was in the action of Badli-ka-sarai on June 8, 1857, and at the siege and capture of Delhi : was in several other engagements : at the capture of Lucknow in March, 1858, by Sir Colin Campbell : at the taking of Jagdishpur : in 1862 he went to Persia in connection with the Government telegraph system: in 1865, became Assistant to the Director of the Indo-European Telegraph Department, and in 1870 became himself the Director : took the additional name of Bateman : to complete and maintain the through telegraphic communication, he had to travel constantly to Persia, the Persian Gulf, Turkey, Russia and India : in 1869 he narrowly escaped drowning in the wreck of the P. and O. S.S. Camatic : he was made K.C.M.G. Dec. 31, 1885 : was on the Councils of the Royal Geographical Society and of the Society of Telegraph Engineers: died Feb. 1, 1887.     
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