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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  Clerk    
First Name(s)  Sir George Russell    
Year of Birth  1800    
Year of Death  1889    
Entry  I.C.S. : son of John Clerk : educated at Haileybury: entered the Service as ""writer"" in 1817 : after holding some unimportant appointments in Bengal, he entered the Political Department : was in the Secretariat, in Rajputana, at Delhi, Political Agent at Umbala and Ludiana : Envoy at Lahore, 1842 : Agent to the Governor-General on the North-Western Frontier during the first Afghan war, in which capacity he pushed forward reinforcements with energy, and, after the massacre of the Army, urged a policy of retribution. He was Lieutenant-Governor of the N.W.P., June to Dec. 1843 : Provisional Member of the Supreme Council, 1844: twice Governor of Bombay, from 1847 to 1848 : K.C.B. : and from 1860-2. He refused the government of the Cape, but served there on boundary and political work, 1853-4 : was Under Secretary and Secretary to the Board of Control in 1856-8, and permanent Under Secretary of State for India, 1858-60. He was a Member of the Council of India, 1863-76 : K.C.S.I., 1861 : G.C.S.I., 1866 : died July 25, 1889.     
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