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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  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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