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Date transcribed	2011-08-00
Transcribed by	Peter Bailey
Comment	Note that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name patterns established by Buckland in his original work.

	Surname	Neill
	First Name(s)	James George Smith
	Birth Year	1810
	Death Year	1857
	Entry	Son of Colonel Neill : born May 27, 1810 : educated at Ayr, and Glasgow University : joined the E. I. Co.'s Madras first European regt. in 1827 : D.A.A.G. in 1841 : wrote the Historical Record of his regt, : in the Burmese war in 1852 : in the Crimean war, appointed second in command of the Turkish contingent, which he organized and reformed : in the mutiny of 1857, sent off with his regt. to Upper India : at the mutiny at Benares, June 4, defeated the rebels : Brig-General : reinforced Allahabad and the fort : A.D.C. to QueenVictoria : superseded by Havelock in the advance to Cawnpur, but appointed his second in command : when commanding at Cawnpur, he punished, with great severity the mutineers caught : had to keep open communications with Havelock on the latter's advance to Lucknow : Neill showed for a time a want of loyal subordination to Havelock : went with him as Brig-General to the relief of Lucknow in Sep. 1857 : was shot dead in the street fighting on the day of the attack, Sep. 25 : on his monument at Ayr, the inscription runs : A brave, resolute, selfreliant soldier, universally acknowledged as the first who stemmed the torrent of rebellion in Bengal. He fell gloriously at the relief of Lucknow.' ' He would have been K.C.B. had he lived.

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