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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 | Hughes | | First Name(s) | Robert John | | Titles | Sir | | Year of Birth | 1821 | | Year of Death | 1904 | | Entry | Born May 5, 1822 : son of Lt. Robert Hughes : entered the Army, 1841 : served in the Crimea : Colonel in 1878 : in the Afghan war, 1878-80 : commanded a Brigade of the Kandahar column : in the Ghazni Field Force, under Sir Donald Stewart in the Kandahar to Kabul march : at Shabjui, Ahmad Kheyl, and Urzoo, near Ghazni : C.B. : commanded the Presidency District, Calcutta, 1880-3 : retired in 1883, as Maj-General : K.C.B., 1894 : died April 19, 1904. |
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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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