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Dictionary of Indian Biography J to L
Date transcribed | 2011-05-01 | 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. |
| Surname | Jones | | First Name(s) | John Felix | | Year of Birth | ? | | Year of Death | 1878 | | Entry | Captain in the Indian Navy : made charts of the Red Sea : in the survey of Ceylon and Mesopotamia : from 1843 was on the survey of the Tigris and Euphrates : discovered the ancient Opis in 1850 : mapped and wrote on Nineveh and surrounding country and Bagdad, 1852-3 : Political Agent at Bagdad, 1854 : in the Persian Gulf, 1855 : served in the Persian war and the mutiny : then retired : made a map of Western Asia : F.R.G.S. : died Sep. 3, 1878. |
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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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