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Dictionary of Indian Biography A to C
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 | Cotton | | First Name(s) | Sir Willoughby | | Year of Death | 1783 | | Entry | Son of Admiral Rowland Cotton : cousin of Lord Combermere : born in 1783 : educated at Rugby (where he led a rebellion) : entered the Guards, 1798 : served in Hanover, 1805: Copenhagen, 1807; I in the Peninsula, 1809-14 : went to India in 1821 : commanded a Brigade in the first Burmese war, 1825-6 : Maj-General and K.C.H., 1830 : commanded in Jamaica, 1829-34 : commanded the Bengal Division of the Army of the Indus, 1838- 9 : K.C.B., 1838 : at Ghazni : left Kabul in 1839 for another command : G.C.B., 1840 : Lt-General, 1841 : C. in C. at Bombay, April, 1847, to Dec. 1850 : General, 1854 : Colonel of the 98th foot : and later of the 32nd foot : died May 4, 1860. |
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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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