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Dictionary of Indian Biography D to F
Date transcribed | 2011-03-01 | 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 | Dalhousie | | First Name(s) | George Ramsay | | Titles | Ninth Earl Of | | Year of Birth | 1770 | | Year of Death | 1838 | | Entry | General : son of the eighth Earl : born in 1770, entered the Army in the Dragoon Guards in 1789, was in several regiments : became Maj -General in 1805, Lt-General, 1813 : G.C.B. : General, 1830 : served at Martinique, 1792 : in the Irish rebellion of 1798 : in Holland, Egypt, the Peninsula and France : created Baron Dalhousie in the Peerage of the United Kingdom in Aug. 181 5 : Lt-Governor of Nova Scotia, 1816 : Captain-General and Governor of Canada, Nova Scotia, etc., 1819-28 : and commanded the forces from 18 19 : was C. in C. in the East Indies, 1829-32 : father of the first Marquis of Dalhousie (q.v.) : died March 21, 1838. |
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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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