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Dictionary of Indian Biography (Buckland)

Dictionary of Indian Biography A to C

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Date transcribed	2011-01-01
Transcribed by	Peter Bailey
Comment	Note that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name pattern established by Buckland in his original work.

	Surname	Compton
	First Name(s)	Sir Herbert Abingdon Draper
	Year of Birth	1770
	Year of Death	1846
	Entry	Son of Walter Abingdon Compton : entered the E.I. Co.'s Army as a private soldier : went to India : bought himself out of the Army : articled himself in an office in Madras : returned home, and wrote for newspapers in London : called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1808 : joined the Madras bar, and became Advocate-General there, and at Calcutta : was knighted and made Chief Justice of the Bombay Supreme Court, April 11, 1831: retired in 1839, and died Jan. 14, 1846.

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A List of eminent persons who served in British India, together with short biographical notes of each

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