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 Memorials of Old Haileybury College
| Date transcribed | 2000-00-00 | | Transcribed by | Benda Cook | | Comment | Publication Date: 1894
Author: F. C. Danvers, Sir M Monier -Williams, Sir S. C. Bayley, P. Wigram, the late Brand Sapte, and many contributors.
Publisher Constable & Co.: Westminster
British Library: OIR 354.54 Held in the Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections.
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| | No. | 840 |  | Surname | Couper | | | Title | Sir | | | Christian Names | George Ebenezer Wilson | | | Decorations | KCSI, CIE | | | Dates at Haileybury | 1844-46 | | | 2nd Term | Hist & Pol Econ Prize | | | Presidency | Bengal  | | | Career in India | 1846-82 | | | Annuitant | 1882 | | | Final Appointment 1 | Commissioner in Oudh 1858; Secretary to Government, N[orth] W[est] P[rovinces] 1860; | | | Final Appointment 2 | Judicial Commissioner of Oudh 1865; Chief Commissioner of Oudh 1875; Lieutenant-Governor N[orth] W[est] Provinces, 1878 | | | Mutiny Service | Was Secretary to the Chief Commissioner of Oudh at the outbreak of the Mutiny, and was therefore at Lucknow from the commencement. Present at the battle of Chinhat, where he served as A.D.C. to Sir Henry Lawrence, by whom he was specially thanked for his services during that day. Was in the Residency throughout the siege, in which he rendered conspicuous service. General Inglis, who commanded, wrote of Couper in his despatch describing the siege: ""I am indebted to Mr. Couper, C.S., for the assistance be has on many occasions afforded me by his judicious advice. I have moreover ever found him most ready and willing in the discharge of the Military duties assigned to him, however exposed the post, or arduous the undertaking. He commenced his career in her Majesty's Service, and consequently had had some experience of Military matters. If the road to Cawnpore had been made clear by the advent of our troops it was my intention to have deputed this Officer to Calcutta to detail in person the events which have taken place for the information of the Government of India. I still hope that when our communications shall be once more unopposed he may be summoned to Calcutta for this purpose."" |
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