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 Dictionary of Indian Biography D to F

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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  Elphinstone    
First Name(s)  William George Keith    
Year of Birth  1782    
Year of Death  1842    
Entry  Maj-General : son of Hon. William Fullerton Elphinstone, Director of the E.I. Co. : entered the Army, 1804, in the 24th foot : served with distinction in various parts of the world : Lt -Colonel of the 33rd foot in 1813, and served with it at Waterloo : made C.B. : A.D.C. to George IV. 1825 : became Maj-General, 1837 : commanded the Benares Division, 1839-41, when, in the first Afghan war, he succeeded Sir Willoughby Cotton as Commander in Chief at Kabul, towards the close of 1841, and, on the murder of Sir W. Macnaghten, on December 23, 141, failed entirely, through old age and ill-health, to take measures for the safety of the force. During the disastrous retreat of the Army from Kabul, in Jan. 1842, he surrendered as a hostage of Akbar Khan : and died of dysentery at Tezin on April 23, 1842.     
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