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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  Macpherson    
First Name(s)  Samuel Charters    
Birth Year  1806    
Death Year  1860    
Entry  Major : brother of John (q.v.) and of William (q.v.), and son of Dr. Hugh Macpherson : educated at Edinburgh and Trinity College, Cambridge : entered the Madras Army, 1827 : in the operations against the Raja of Gumsur in Orissa, 1835 : inquired and reported on the wild tribe of Khonds in Gumsur, and the measures required for the suppression of the Meriah, or human, sacrifices among them, 1837-9 : as Principal Assistant to the Collector of Ganjam, he reformed the Khonds, 1842-4 : appointed Agent to the Governor-General in 1845 to suppress human sacrifice, and female infanticide, in the hill tracts of Orissa : his conduct investigated and charges against him found untenable : Political Officer at Benares, Bhopal and Gwalior. where, with Dinkar Rao, he kept Sindia loyal in the mutiny of 1857 : died at Calcutta, April 15, 1860.     
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