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Date transcribed2011-08-00
Transcribed byPeter Bailey
CommentNote that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name patterns established by Buckland in his original work.

Surname  Mackeson    
First Name(s)  Frederick    
Birth Year  1807    
Death Year  1853    
Entry  Son of William Mackeson : born Sep. 28, 1807 : educated at Canterbury and in France : entered the Indian Army in Bengal, in 1825 : in the 14th N.I. : stationed as Assistant Political Agent at Ludiana : accompanied Sir A. Burnes {q.v.) to Cabul in 1837 : distinguished as a Frontier and Political Officer in the first Afghan war, in the Khyber and at Peshawar: C.B., 1842 : in the battle of Aliwal : in 1846, Superintendent of Cis-Satlaj territory: was in the Panjab campaign of 1848-9 : Political Officer with the Army : after Chilianwala he swam the Jhelum in full flood : local Lt-Colonel, 1849 : Commissioner of Peshawar in 1851 : he was, while engaged in official work in his verandah, assassinated by a religious fanatic from Koner, Sep. 10, 1853 : he died on Sep. 14. Lord Dalhousie wrote his epitaph, which included the following words—"" He was the beau ideal of a soldier—cool to conceive, brave to dare, and strong to do. . . . The loss of Col. Mackeson's life would have dimmed a victory : to lose him thus, by the hand of a foul assassin, is a misfortune of the heaviest gloom for the Government, which counted him among its bravest and its best.""     
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