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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 | Login | | First Name(s) | John Spencer | | Titles | Sir | | Year of Birth | 1809 | | Year of Death | 1863 | | Entry | Educated at the University of Edinburgh : became an Assistant Surgeon in the E. I. Co.'s service, 1832 : was appointed to the Bengal Horse Artillery : served with the Nizam's Army : in 1836, on Sir C. Metcalfe's Staff, when Lieutenant- Governor of the N.W.P. : in the Afghan war, in medical charge of the Horse Artillery, and of the British Mission to Herat, also in a political capacity : on the C. in C.'s staff, 1840 : Surgeon to the British Residency at Lucknow, and Superintendent of Hospitals to the King of Oudh : in the Panjab campaign, 1848-9 : on the annexation of the Panjab became Guardian and Superintendent of the Maharaja Dulip Singh : knighted, 1854 : retired, 1858 : died Oct. 18, 1863. |
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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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