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 to Kabul and battle of Ahmad Kheyl : marched with Sir F. Roberts from Kabul to Kandahar : with King's Royal Rifles in Boer campaign, 1880 : Adjutant, 1881–5 : commanded Mounted Infantry in Burma Field Force, 1886–7 : D.S.O : A.A.G., Meerut, 1889 : commanded Ist Battalion Imperial Yeomanry in S. Africa, 1900–1 : promoted Colonel in Reserve of Officers.

GOMM, SIR WILLIAM MAYNARD (1784–1875)

Field-Marshal : born Nov. 10, 1784 : son of Lt-Colonel William Gomm : Ensign and Lieutenant in the 9th regt. in 1794 : studied at Woolwich until 1799 : served in Holland, 1799 : at Ferrol, 1800 : Hanover, 1805 : in the Copenhagen expedition, 1807 : at Corunna : on the Walcheren expedition, 1809 : in the Peninsula, 18ro : in many of the engagements : Lt-Colonel : K.C.B. : in the Coldstream Guards : at Waterloo, Q.M.G. to Picton's Division : Maj-General, 1837 : commanded the troops in, and Lieutenant-Governor of, Jamaica, 1839–42 : Governor and C. in C. of the Mauritius, 1842–9 : Lt-General, 1846 : disappointed of the Commandership in Chief in India in 1849, after being told of his appointment, but, on the resignation of Sir Charles Napier (who had been separately appointed), became C. in C. in India from Dec. 6, 1850 to 1855 : General in 1854 : G.C.B. in 1859 : Field-Marshal, 1868 : Constable of the Tower of London, 1872 : D.C.L. and LL.D. : died March 15, 1875.

GONDAL, THAKUR SAHIB OF (1865–)

Born Oct. 24, 1865 : educated at the Rajkumar College, Rajkot, and Edin-burgh University : Hon. LL.D. Edin., 1887 : M.B. and G.M. Edin. 1895 : D.C.L., Oxford, 1892 : M.D. Edin., 1895 : F.R.C.P. Edin., 1895 : Fellow of the Bombay University : F.R.S.E., 1900 : K.C.I.E., 1887 : G.C.I.E., 1897 : author of A Short History of Aryan Medical Science, Journal of a Visit to England.

GOODFELLOW, CHARLES AUGUSTUS ( ? - )

Entered Royal Bombay Engineers, 1855 : became Lt-General, 1892 : served in the Indian mutiny, 1857–8 : V.C : Kattiawar Field Force, 1859 : Abyssinian expedition : Brevet-Major : un-employed supernumerary, 1896.

GOPAL, MADAN, RAI BAHADUR ( ? –1901)

Began his career as a pleader at Delhi : called to the bar in 1887 : practised at the Lahore Chief Court, obtained a leading position at the bar : Fellow of the Panjab University in 1888 : leading member of the Senate : Rai Bahadur in 1896 : member of the Pan jab Legislative Council, in 1898, 1900, 1902 : died at Delhi, Aug. 11, 1904.

GORDON, SIR BENJAMIN LUMSDEN (1833–)

Born July 8, 1833 : educated at Edinburgh Academy and Addiscombe : joined the Madras Artillery, 1852 : served in the Horse Artillery in the Indian mutiny : present at the relief of Lucknow, battle of Cawnpur, etc. : Lt-Colonel, 1875 : commanded R.A. in Sir F. Roberts' advance on Kabul : at Charasia and Kabul : C.B. commanded a Brigade in Madras, 1884–6 Maj-General in command in Lower Burma commanded Burma District, 1889–91, when he retired : K.C.B. 1899.

GORDON, CHARLES GEORGE (1833–1885)

Maj-General, R.E. : son of General H.W. Gordon of the Royal Artillery : born Jan. 18, 1833 : educated at Taunton and the R.M.A., Woolwich : entered the Army in 1852 : served in the Crimea, China, Egypt. His connexion with India was curious and brief : in May, 1880, he, being then a Colonel, went to India as Private Secretary to Lord Ripon, who was going out as Viceroy of India. They arrived in Bombay on June 1 : on the 3rd Gordon resigned his appointment, explaining that the duties were distasteful, that he saw he could not hope to do anything really to the purpose in the face of vested interests, and that his views were diametrically opposed to those of the official classes. Some years later, he recommended the strengthening of the British naval force on the Indian station, and that our main communication with India should be by the Cape route. His services in Africa and elsewhere, and his death at Khartoum, on Jan. 26, 1885, are matters of national history.