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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 | Hardinge | | First Name(s) | Arthur Edward | | Titles | Hon. | | Year of Birth | 1828 | | Year of Death | 1892 | | Entry | Second son of Henry, first Viscount Hardinge {q.v.) : educated at Eton : joined the 41st foot in 1844 : to India as A.D.C. to his father, when Governor- General (1844-8) : was in the first Sikh war of 1845-6, at the battles of Mudki, Firozshahr and Sobraon : exchanged to the Coldstream Guards in 1849 : in the Q.M.G.'s Department in the Crimea, 1854- 5, at all the battles : Brevet-Major and C.B., 1857 : Equerry to the Prince Consort and afterwards to Queen Victoria : Maj- General, 1871 : commanded a Division in Bengal, 1873-8 : C. in C. of the Bombay Army, 1881-5 : General, 1883 : K.C.B. and C.I.E. in 1886: Governor of Gibraltar, 1886-90 : died July, 1892, from the effects of a carriage accident. |
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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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