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 Dictionary of Indian Biography A to C

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Date transcribed2011-01-01
Transcribed byPeter Bailey
CommentNote that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name pattern established by Buckland in his original work.

Surname  Clarke    
First Name(s)  Sir Alured    
Year of Birth  1745 ?    
Year of Death  1832    
Entry  Field-Marshal: born about 1745 : entered the Army, 1759 : served in Germany, Ireland, America : was Lieutenant-Governor of Jamaica, 1782-90 : on the way to India, in 1795, he co-operated with Lord Keith in the capture of Cape Town from the Dutch E. I. Co. : in India was C. in C in Madras, Jan., 1796 till March, 1797 : Member of the Supreme Council and provisional C. in C. Bengal from April, 1797, and confirmed in the Chief Command in India in May, 1798, retaining it till July, 1801. He was in command of the force with Sir John Shore when the latter, as Governor-General, went to Lucknow to depose Wazir Ali and set up Saadat Ali as Nawab of Oudh in Jan. 1798. He acted as Governor-General from the resignation of Sir John Shore in March, 1798, till the arrival of Lord Mornington in May, 1798. He was K.B. in 1797 : General in 1802 : G.C.B., 1815 : Field-Marshal in 1830, and died Sep. 16, 1832.     
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