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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  Robertson    
First Name(s)  Thomas Campbell    
Birth Year  1789    
Death Year  1863    
Entry  I.C.S. : born Nov. 9, 1789 : son of Captain George Robertson, R.N : educated at Edinburgh and Glasgow : went out to Bengal in the Civil Service, 1805 : while at Chittagong, from 1823, was in the Burmese war of 1825, and went to Ava as Commissioner, helping to make the treaty : Commissioner at Bareli : A.G.G. on the N.E. frontier and Commissioner of Assam, 1831 : Commissioner of Cuttack, 1834 : Judge of the Sadr Court, 1835 : Member of the Supreme Council, Nov. 1835 to Jan. 1840 : Lieutenant-Governor of the N.W.P., Feb. 1840, to Dec. 1842 : Provisional Governor-General : retired 1843 : died July 6, 1863 : wrote on the first Burmese war and other Indian political subjects.     
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