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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	Damant
	First Name(s)	Guybon Henry
	Year of Birth	1846
	Year of Death	1879
	Entry	I.C.S. : born May 9, 1846 : educated at St. Paul's School, London, and Christ's College, Cambridge : Scholar and Exhibitioner : went out to Bengal, 1869 : served in Cachar, Assam, and on special duty to Manipur, 1876 : was Deputy Commissioner of the Garo Hills, 1877, and Political Agent in the Naga Hills, Assam, 1878 : on his way to Khonoma, to seize some ammunition which the Nagas had stored, was killed by them, Oct. 14, 1879 : took keen interest in literature and philology : wrote on folk-lore, and the Manipuri language in the J.A.S.B., J.R.A.S., and the Indian Antiquary. most of the MSS. of his Manipur Dictionary were destroyed by the Nagas in the stockade at Kohima.

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