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    Reverend Robert Mapletoft, assistant chaplain to the East India Company at St John's, Calcutta; they had five sons and two daughters. Brooke was born...
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  • Parliament for Aldeburgh Robert Brooke (East India Company officer) (1744–1811), British Governor of St. Helena Robert Brooke (Virginia governor) (c. 1751–1800)...
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  • 1899 Robert Brooke (East India Company officer) (1744–1811), Governor of the island of St Helena from 1788 to 1800 Robert Brooke Sr. (1602–1655), Colonial...
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    Marshal Alan Francis Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke, KG, GCB, OM, GCVO, DSO & Bar (23 July 1883 – 17 June 1963), was a senior officer of the British Army...
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    December 1795) was a Scottish nabob, a corrupt official of the British East India Company who returned home with great wealth. Described as "a shrewd and unscrupulous...
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  • commandant of the Bengal Artillery, was a British army officer in the service of the East India Company. James Tennant, the second son of William Tennant,...
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    Sir Charles Vyner Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak, GCMG, full name Charles Vyner de Windt Brooke (26 September 1874 – 9 May 1963) was the third and last White...
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  • Prosperous, County Kildare, developed by Robert Brooke (East India Company officer), begins to function. The whiskey company John Jameson is established. January...
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    1782–1787 Sir Robert Brooke 1788–1800 Francis Robson 13 Jul 1801 – 11 Mar 1802, Acting Governor and East India Company officer Colonel Robert Patton Mar...
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    Baron Robert Clive (1725–1774), British army officer and privateer who established the military and political supremacy of the East India Company in Bengal...
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    Borneo Company Limited, formed in 1856, was one of the oldest companies based in East Malaysia (Sarawak and Sabah). In 1840s, James Brooke (White Rajah...
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  • Lord Admiral Sir Royston Wright, Second Sea Lord Air Chief Marshal Sir Robert Brooke-Popham Air Chief Marshal Sir Trafford Leigh-Mallory Air Chief Marshal...
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    lifelong friends. Robert Clive was an army officer in the East India Company and later became Governor of Bengal. He arrived in India almost penniless...
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    Claude Auchinleck (category Officers of the Order of the British Empire)
    the Order of the Star of India (8 May 1936) Mohmand operations 8 October 1935 Distinguished Service Order (3 June 1917) Officer of the Order of the British...
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    commanders of his time. Born in India to an Anglo-Irish family, Roberts joined the East India Company Army and served as a young officer in the Indian Rebellion...
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    success of the East India Company (EIC) where his father had been serving, and especially by the efforts of Stamford Raffles to expand the company influence...
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    Bernard Montgomery (category Grand Officers of the Order of Leopold II)
    Robert Montgomery, a native of Inishowen in County Donegal in the north-west of Ulster, the noted colonial administrator in British India; Sir Robert...
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    Baronet, of Woodbrook (1755—1835), East India Company Brigadier-General Percy Douglas Hamilton Lieutenant-General Sir Robert Hamilton, 4th Baronet Brigadier...
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    William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim (category West India Regiment officers)
    and Alan Brooke, the Chief of the Imperial General Staff, furious at not having been consulted by Leese, and Claude Auchinleck, the C-in-C India who was...
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    in the First World War, where they served in the Middle East and East Africa. Eight West India Regiments were commissioned between 24 April and 1 September...
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    Herbert Plumer, 1st Viscount Plumer (category British colonial army officers)
    Marjorie, married Maj. W.H. Brooke who had studied at University College, Oxford and was a chief mourner at the Leeds funeral of Robert Middleton in October...
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  • William Ormston Backhouse (1885–1962), agricultural geneticist Zachary Nugent Brooke (1883–1946), historian Arthur John Butler (1844–1910), scholar and professor...
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  • 1946 New Year Honours (MBE) (category 1946 in India)
    Warrant Officer Class I Kenneth Jones, Royal Army Ordnance Corps. Major (temporary) Robert Charles Jones (E.C.5626), Intelligence Corps (India). No. 2730034...
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    The Man Who Would Be King (category Short stories set in British India)
    as a surgeon with the British East India Company's army in 1824. Frederick "Pahari" Wilson (1817–1883), an English officer who deserted during the First...
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    James St Clair-Erskine, 2nd Earl of Rosslyn (category 14th King's Hussars officers)
    James Fox against William Pitt the Younger in the debates over the East India Company, he was one of the managers of the Impeachment of Warren Hastings...
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    East India Company and a New East India Company created in 1698, a new Company was formed in 1708 by amalgamation, and entitled the "United Company of...
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    Southern Railway Company. Robert John Doherty, Boatswain, SS Sea Fisher (Wm. France, Fenwick & Company Ltd.). Alexander Doloughan, Training Officer in Civil Defence...
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    British Egyptology" General John Briggs (1785–1875), officer in the army of the East India Company, Persian scholar Mohan Lal Kashmiri (1812-1877), Indian...
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    George VI (redirect from George VI of India)
    December 1936 until his death in 1952. He was also the last Emperor of India from 1936 until the British Raj was dissolved in August 1947, and the first...
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    However, Brooke's forces managed to outflank and to overrun American positions to the right. After a discussion with lower ranking officers, Brooke decided...
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