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Dictionary of Indian Biography A to C
Date transcribed | 2011-01-01 | 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 | Burgoyne | | First Name(s) | John | | Year of Birth | 1722 | | Year of Death | 1792 | | Entry | General : son of Captain John Burgoyne : educated at Westminster : entered the Army in the 13th Light Dragoons, 1740 : M.P. for Midhurst, 1761 : for Preston, 1768 : spoke, moving for a Select Committee, on the Government of India, 1772, urging the principle (afterwards adopted by Fox and Pitt in their India Bills) of Government control over the E. I. Co. : in the attack in Parliament on Lord Clive, May 3, 1773, Burgoyne, Chairman of the Committee, was the accuser, and carried condemnatory resolutions against Clive : commanded in America in 1774, and surrendered at Saratoga, Oct. 17, 1777 : C. in C. in Ireland, 1782 : was a manager of the impeachment of Warren Hastings, 1787 : died June 4, 1792. |
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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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