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 present at Tel-el-Kebir and Zagazig : retired in 1884 : Honorary Surgeon to the late Queen and to H.M. the present King : K.C.B. in 1903.

COMBERMERE, STAPLETON COTTON, FIRST VISCOUNT (1773–1865)

Field-Marshal : son of Sir R. S. Cotton, fifth Baronet : M.P. : born Nov. 1773 : educated at Westminster, and at a private Military Academy in Bayswater : entered the Army in 1790, in the 23rd Fusiliers; served in Flanders : was Lt-Colonel of a Cavalry regt. at the Cape on his way to India, where he was engaged in 1799 against Tippoo, being at Malvalli and Seringapatam : returned to England, 1800 : was M.P. for Newark, 1806–14 : as Maj-General he commanded, first a Brigade in the Peninsula, from 1808, and later the whole cavalry Division : succeeded as Baronet in 1809 : was at Talavera and Salamanca : K.C.B. in 1812 : and at other engagements, including the Pyrenees campaign and Toulouse : was made Baron Combermere in May, 1814, and received a pension. He commanded the allied cavalry in France in 1815–6 : was Governor of Barbados 1817–20, and Commander-in-Chief in Ireland, 1822–5 : as C. in C. in India, 1825–1830, he besieged and took Bhartpur on Jan. 18, 1826, and was made Viscount in 1827 : Constable of the Tower, 1852 : Field-Marshal, 1855 : he was G.C.B. in 1815 : G.C.H. in 1817 : D.C.L. in 1830 : Privy Councillor, 1843 : K.C.S.I., 1861 : died Feb. 21, 1865.

COMPTON, SIR HERBERT ABINGDON DRAPER (1770–1846)

Son of Walter Abingdon Compton : entered the E.I. Co.'s Army as a private soldier : went to India : bought himself out of the Army : articled himself in an office in Madras : returned home, and wrote for newspapers in London : called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1808 : joined the Madras bar, and became Advocate-General there, and at Calcutta : was knighted and made Chief Justice of the Bombay Supreme Court, April 11, 1831: retired in 1839, and died Jan. 14, 1846.

COMYN, SIR ROBERT BUCKLEY (1792–1853)

Son of the Rev. Thomas Comyn : born Oct. 26, 1792 : educated at Merchant Taylors' School and St. John's College, Oxford : called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1814 : appointed a Puisne Judge of the Calcutta Supreme Court in 1825 : knighted : Chief Justice of Madras from July I, 1835, until March 11, 1842 : D.C.L. Oxford : Bencher of the Middle Temple : died May 23, 1853. He wrote on legal and historical subjects.

CONNEMARA, ROBERT BOURKE, FIRST BARON (1827–1902)

Governor : born June 11, 1827 : son of fifth Earl of Mayo, brother of sixth Earl of Mayo (q.v.), Viceroy and Governor-General : educated at Enniskillen and Trinity College, Dublin : called to the bar at the Inner Temple, 1852 : M.P. for King's Lynn, 1868, 1874 : Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs, 1874–80 : and again 1885–6 : P.C, 1880 : Governor of Madras, Dec. 8, 1886–Dec I, 1890 : G.C.I.E. : made a Peer, May 12, 1887 : died Sep. 3, 1902.

CONOLLY, ARTHUR (1807–1842?)

Son of Valentine Conolly : born July 2, 1807 : educated at Rugby and Addiscombe : went to India in the same ship as Bishop Heber : joined the Bengal Cavalry, 1823 : at Bhartpur, 1826 : from leave in England e returned to India through Central Asia, via St. Petersburg, Tiflis, Teheran, Astrabad: nearly killed by the Turcomans on his way to Khiva : from Astrabad to Mashad, Herat, Kandahar, Sind : wrote an account of his journey : was in the Political Department in Rajputana, 1834–8 : Captain : made another journey via Vienna, Constantinople, Bagdad, Teheran and Herat : joined Macnaghten's Staff at Kabul, 1840 : in Sep. he was sent as Envoy to Khiva, via Merv, and to Khokand, and, on the invitation of the Amir Nasirulla of Bokhara, sent through Stoddart, went on there, but was treacherously imprisoned, in Oct. or Dec. 1841 : he and Stoddart were executed in captivity, probably on June 17, 1842. His few letters described their sufferings in their dungeon : his prayer-book, full of his writing, was delivered to his sister in London in 1862.

CONOLLY, EDWARD BARRY (1808–1840)

Brother of Arthur Conolly (q.v.) : was Captain in the Bengal Cavalry and 