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Date transcribed2011-05-01
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.

Surname  Lambton    
First Name(s)  William    
Year of Birth  1756    
Year of Death  1823    
Entry  Born 1756 : educated at Northallerton Grammar School and Newcastle-on-Tyne : entered the Army in 1781 : went with the 33rd regt. under Arthur Wellesley to the Cape in 1796, to Bengal and Madras in 1798 : was Brig-Major to Baird at the siege of Seringapatam (May, 1799), engaged in Mysore : was appointed Superintendent of the survey connecting the Malabar and Coromandel coasts, proposed by him : Superintendent of the Great Trigonometrical Survey : the survey necessitated the measurement of base lines, scientific observations and other operations connected with geodesy, which occupied him apparently the rest of his life : F.R.S., and Fellow of the Asiatic Society : Lt-Colonel : died at Hinganghat, Jan. 26 1823.     
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