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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  Burgoyne    
First Name(s)  John    
Year of Birth  1722    
Year of Death  1792    
Entry  General : son of Captain John Burgoyne : educated at Westminster : entered the Army in the 13th Light Dragoons, 1740 : M.P. for Midhurst, 1761 : for Preston, 1768 : spoke, moving for a Select Committee, on the Government of India, 1772, urging the principle (afterwards adopted by Fox and Pitt in their India Bills) of Government control over the E. I. Co. : in the attack in Parliament on Lord Clive, May 3, 1773, Burgoyne, Chairman of the Committee, was the accuser, and carried condemnatory resolutions against Clive : commanded in America in 1774, and surrendered at Saratoga, Oct. 17, 1777 : C. in C. in Ireland, 1782 : was a manager of the impeachment of Warren Hastings, 1787 : died June 4, 1792.     
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