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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 | Firminger | | First Name(s) | Thomas Augustus | | Titles | Rev. | | Year of Birth | 1812 | | Year of Death | 1884 | | Entry | Born in London in 1812: son of Dr. Thomas Firminger, who prepared candidates for Haileybury : educated at Pembroke College, Cambridge : took his degree, 1837 : appointed Chaplain of the E.I. Co., 1846 : served at Sagar, at Firozpur, during the second Sikh war : toured in India from 1854, made many drawings : had two pictures in the Royal Academy : Chaplain at Howrah, 1857 : and at Chinsura, 1850 : published his Manual of Gardening for India, 1863 : in the Bhutan expedition, 1864-5 : retired, 1868 : died Jan. 18, 1884. |
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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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