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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 | Greaves | | First Name(s) | George Richards | | Titles | Sir | | Year of Birth | 1831 | | Entry | Born Nov. 9, 1831 : son of Capt. George Greaves, 60th Rifles : educated at Sandhurst : joined the 70th regt. : served in the Indian mutiny : New Zealand war, 1860-6 : Ashanti campaign, 1874 : Soudan, 1885 : Chief Secretary and Commissioner, Cyprus, 1878 : Adjutant-General in India, 1879 : commanded a Division in India, 1886 : C. in C, Bombay, 1890 : resigned, 1893 : became General, 1896, and retired : K.C.M.G., 1881 : K.C.B., 1885 : G.C.B. |
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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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