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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 | Fitzgerald And Vesey | | First Name(s) | William Vesey | | Titles | Lord | | Year of Birth | 1783 | | Year of Death | 1843 | | Entry | Born 1783 : son of Rt. Hon. James Fitzgerald : educated at Christ Church, Oxford : M.P. for Ennis, 1898 and 1831 : for Clare County, 1818 : for boroughs in Cornwall, 1829-30 : Lord of the Treasury, and Privy Councillor in Ireland and England : Envoy Extraordinary to Sweden, 1820-3 : President of the Board of Trade, 1828 : acceded to his mother's Irish Peerage, 1832 : made an English Peer, 1835 : President of the Board of Control, 1841-3 : F.S.A. and President of the Royal Asiatic Society : died May 11, 1843. |
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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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