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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 | Lyall | | First Name(s) | Alfred Comyn | | Titles | Sir | | Year of Birth | 1835 | | Entry | I.C.S. : son of Rev. Alfred Lyall : born 1835 : educated at Eton and Haileybury : entered the Bengal Civil Service, 1855 : in the Indian mutiny saw service in the Bulandshahr District, at Meerut, and with the Khaki Risala of volunteers : Commissioner in Berar, 1867 : Secretary to the Government of India in the Home, 1873-4, and Foreign, 1878-82, Departments : A.G.G. for Rajputana, 1874-8 : Lieutenant-Governor of N.W.P., 1882-7 : Chancellor of the Allahabad University : Member of the Council of India, 1888- 1903 : author of Verses written in India, British Dominion in India, Asiatic Studies, Life of Warren Hastings (English Men of Action series). K.C.B., 1881 : G.C.I.E.: 1896 : D.C.L., Oxford : LL.D., Cambridge, P.C., 1902. |
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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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