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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  Chesney    
First Name(s)  Sir George Tomkyns    
Year of Birth  1830    
Year of Death  1895    
Entry  Son of Capt. Charles Cornwallis Chesney of the Bengal Artillery : born April 30, 1830 : educated at Blundell's school, Tiverton, and Addiscombe : entered the Bengal Engineers, 1848, and became General in 1882 : went to India in 1850 : in the P.W.D. until the mutiny : in the Badli-ka-sarai action. June, 8, 1857 : at the capture of the ridge at Delhi : Brig- Major, R.E. at Delhi : in the assault on Sep. 14 : was President of the Engineering College at Calcutta, and head of the P.W.D. Account Department in 1860 : President of the Royal Indian Civil Engineering College at Cooper's Hill, 1871-80, of which he had prepared the constitution, etc. : Secretary to the Government of India in the Military Department, 1880- 6 : Military Member of the Supreme Council, July, 1886-April, 1891 : M.P. for Oxford, 1892 : C.S.I. 1883 : C.I.E. 1886 : C.B. 1887 : K.C.B. 1890 : died March 31, 1895. He wrote a number of books : the principal were Indian Polity : The Battle of Dorking, a military-political Magazine article which made a great sensation : The True Reformer, The Great Dilemma, The Private Secretary, besides other articles in Magazines and Reviews.     
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