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 Dictionary of Indian Biography D to F

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Date transcribed2011-03-01
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  Draper    
First Name(s)  William    
Titles  Sir    
Year of Birth  1721    
Year of Death  1787    
Entry  Son of Ingleby Draper : born 1721 : educated at Eton and King's College, Cambridge : Fellow : joined the Army, 1744 : at Culloden : in Flanders with the 1st Foot-Guards : in 1757 as Lt-Colonel, took the 79th to Madras : in the siege of Fort St. George, 1757-9 : too ill to take command of the troops at Madras in 1759 : returned to England : in 1762 commanded, from Madras, the expedition against the Spaniards at Manilla : carried the place by assault : Lieut-Governor of Great Yarmouth : in 1765 Colonel of the 16th foot : knighted in 1766 : had a literary controversy with "" Junius,"" defending the C. in C. the Marquis of Granby : Lt-General in 1777 : Lieutenant-Governor of Minorca in 1779 : in the surrender of Fort St. Philip in 1782 to the French and Spaniards : brought charges of misconduct against Lt-General the Hon. James Murray, the Governor, which he failed to substantiate, so that he was commanded to make an apology : he died Jan. 8, 1787-     
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