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Dictionary of Indian Biography G to I
Date transcribed | 2011-04-00 | 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. |
| Surnames | Grant | | First Name(s) | Patrick | | Titles | Sir | | Year of Birth | 1804 | | Year of Death | 1895 | | Entry | Field Marshal: son of Major John Grant, 97th foot : born Sep. 11, 1804 : Ensign, 1820: joined the nth Bengal N.I. in Jan. 1821 : rose to be General, 1870 : Field Marshal, June, 1883 : Goldstick in Waiting to Queen Victoria, 1885 : raised the Hariana Light Infantry, 1836: organized the N.W. Frontier Force in 1841 : Deputy- Adjutant-General, 1843 : in the Gwalior campaign at Maharajpur : in the first Sikh war was at Mudki, acting there as Adjutant- General ; at Firozshahr, and Sobraon : C.B.: Adjutant-General of the Bengal Army, 1846 : at Chilianwala and Gujarat : Brevet- Colonel and A.D.C. to Queen Victoria: served against the N.W. frontier tribes : C. in C. of the Madras Army, 1856 : K.C.B. : C. in C. in India, temporarily, in the mutiny, between General Anson (q.v.) and Lord Clyde (q.v.) : retired in 1861 : G.C.B. : C. in C. at Malta, 1867-72 : G.C.M.G., 1868 : Governor of the Chelsea Hospital, 1874-95 : died March 28, 1895. |
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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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