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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  Lennox    
First Name(s)  Wilbraham Oates    
Titles  Sir    
Year of Birth  1830    
Year of Death  1897    
Entry  Son of Lord John George Lennox, and grandson of the fourth Duke of Richmond : born May 4, 1830 : privately educated and at the R.M.A., Woolwich : entered the R.E. in 1848 : General in 1893 : served in the Crimea, 1854-6 : won the Victoria Cross : on the way out to China, in 1857, was sent up to India, and up to Cawnpur : temporarily Chief Engineer under Sir Colin Campbell at his relief of Lucknow, in Nov. 1857 : was at the siege and capture in March, 1858 : was in a number of actions : in Rohilkund : commanding Engineer in the Oudh campaign and in the Trans- Gogra campaign : two Brevets : left India in 1859 : C.B., 1867 : served at Chatham : attached to the German armies in France in the Franco-German war : Military Attache at Constantinople, 1876 : with the Turkish Armies in 1877 : commanded the garrison of Alexandria, 1884-7, and in Ceylon, 1887-8 : K.C.B., 1891 : Director of Military Education, 1893-5 : died Feb. 7, 1897.     
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