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Date transcribed2011-03-01
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  Donkin    
First Name(s)  Rufane Shaw    
Titles  Sir    
Year of Birth  1773    
Year of Death  1841    
Entry  Son of General Robert Donkin : born 1773 : educated at Westminster : entered the Army in 1778 : Lieutenant, 1779 : Captain, 1793 : served in the West Indies, at Copenhagen, in Sicily and the Peninsula, and, as Maj -General in 1811, went out in 1815 to Madras and Bengal, where he commanded a Division in the Mahratta war of 1817-8, with skill : K.C.B., 1818 : acted as Governor of the Cape : he became G.C.H., F.R.S., F.R.G.S. : was M.P. for Berwick and for Sandwich : was Surveyor of the Ordnance : General, 1838 : died May 1, 1841 : was a student, and contributed literary papers to Journals.     
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