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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 | Littler | | First Name(s) | John Hunter | | Titles | Sir | | Year of Birth | 1783 | | Year of Death | 1856 | | Entry | Son of Thomas Littler : born Jan. 6, 1783 : educated at Acton, near Nantwich : joined the 10th Bengal N.I. in 1800 : captured by a French privateer on his outward voyage : served in Lord Lake's campaigns of 1804-5 : in Java, 1811-16 : Assistant Commissary General, 1816-42 : Maj-General in 1841 : commanded the Agra Division, 1843, and a Division at Maharajpur, 1843 : K.C.B. : in 1845 commanded the Firozpur Division : offered battle, which they avoided, to the Sikhs, when they crossed the Satlaj in Dec. 1845 : commanded a Division at Firozshahr : G.C.B., 1849 : Member of the Supreme Council in India, Feb. 1848, to Dec. 1852 : . Deputy-Governor of Bengal, March, 1849, to Jan. 1852 : retired as Lt-General : Colonel of the 36th N.I. : died Feb. 18, 1856. |
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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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