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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  Harris    
First Name(s)  William Cornwallis    
Titles  Sir    
Year of Birth  1807    
Year of Death  1848    
Entry  Major : son of James Harris : born in 1807 : educated at a military college : joined the E.I. Co.'s Bombay Engineers in 1823 : on leave to the Cape, 1835-7, made an expedition to shoot big game in the interior of South Africa : field engineer to the Army in Sind, 1838 : Superintending Engineer in 1841 : negotiated a commercial treaty with Shoa in Abyssinia : knighted, 1844 : again Superintending Engineer in Bombay : died of fever, Oct. 9, 1848 : published accounts of the game animals of S. Africa : and scientific papers on zoology and certain trees.     
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