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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 | Lynch | | First Name(s) | Henry Blosse | | Year of Birth | 1807 | | Year of Death | 1873 | | Entry | Captain : son of Major Henry Blosse Lynch : born Nov. 24, 1807 : joined the Indian Navy, 1823 : employed in the Survey of the Persian Gulf, acting as interpreter in Persian and Arabic to the Squadron, 1829-32 : commanded the Enterprise, 1830-2, and examined S. Persia : shipwrecked in the Red Sea : served in command of the expedition under Col. F. R. Chesney to explore the Euphrates route to India, 1834 : in command of it, 1837 : ascended the Tigris, and completed the map of it, 1839 : extended, by his explorations, the geographical knowledge of Mesopotamia : had charge of the postal service across Syria till 1842 : commanded a flotilla to co-operate with Sir C. Napier in Sind, 1843 : held various naval shore appointments in Bombay, 1844-51 : in the second Burmese war commanded a squadron in the naval operations : C.B., 1853 : retired to Paris, 1856 : after the Persian war, of 1856-7, conducted at Paris the negotiations with the Persian Ambassador which led to the Treaty of Paris, March 4, 1857 : made Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Lion and Sun : died April 14, 1873. |
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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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