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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  Cooper    
First Name(s)  Thomas Thornville    
Year of Birth  1839    
Year of Death  1878    
Entry  Traveller : son of John J. Cooper : born Sep. 13, 1839 : educated at Bishopwearmouth. When he was on a voyage to Australia for his health, the crew mutinied : he went to India, 1859: joined the firm of Arbuthnot & Co. at Madras : travelled to Rangoon and on to Shanghai : fought against the Taiping rebels : in 1868, he tried to travel from Hankow, through Tibet, to India, was stopped at Batang and near Weisi and imprisoned, and, via the Yangtsze, reached Hankow in Nov. 1868: in 1869, trying to reach China from Sadiya in Assam was stopped at Prun. The India Office employed him with the Panthay mission to London : he was then made Political Agent at Bhamo : returned home for his health : attached to the India Office : reappointed in 1876 to Bhamo, and was murdered there by one of his own guards, April 24, 1878. He wrote Travels of a Pioneer of Commerce in Pigtail and Petticoats, 1871 : and Mishmee Hills, 1873.     
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