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 Dictionary of Indian Biography G to I

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Date transcribed2011-04-00
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.

Surnames  Gordon    
First Name(s)  Charles George    
Year of Birth  1833    
Year of Death  1885    
Entry  Maj-General, R.E. : son of General H.W. Gordon of the Royal Artillery : born Jan. 18, 1833 : educated at Taunton and the R.M.A., Woolwich : entered the Army in 1852 : served in the Crimea, China, Egypt. His connexion with India was curious and brief : in May, 1880, he, being then a Colonel, went to India as Private Secretary to Lord Ripon, who was going out as Viceroy of India. They arrived in Bombay on June 1 : on the 3rd Gordon resigned his appointment, explaining that the duties were distasteful, that he saw he could not hope to do anything really to the purpose in the face of vested interests, and that his views were diametrically opposed to those of the official classes. Some years later, he recommended the strengthening of the British naval force on the Indian station, and that our main communication with India should be by the Cape route. His services in Africa and elsewhere, and his death at Khartoum, on Jan. 26, 1885, are matters of national history.     
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