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 Haileybury and Sandhurst : joined the Army, 1883, and Indian Staff Corps, 1885 : entered the Pan jab Commission, 1887, and the Indian Political Department, 1890 : Political Agent at Zhob, 1891, and 1893 : accompanied Durand Mission to Kabul, 1893 : C.I.E. : British Commissioner for demarcating boundary between Beluchistan and Afghanistan, 1894–6 : C.S.I. : Political Agent, Gilgit, 1897–8 : Political Agent, Dir, Swat, and Chitral, 1899–1901 : Revenue and Judicial Commissioner, Beluchistan, 1901 : Commis- sioner to settle the Perso-Afghan boundary, 1903 : Agent to the Governor-General in Beluchistan, 1905 : F.S.A. : F.L.S.

McMAHON, CHARLES ALEXANDER (1830–1894)

Son of Capt. Alexander McMahon of the E. I. Co.'s service : born 1830 : reached India in 1847 : was eight years in the Madras N.I. : joined the Panjab Commission in 1856 : rose to be Commissioner and officiating Financial Commissioner : Maj-General : retired in 1885. He acted with vigour when the troops at Sealkot mutinied in 1857. He studied geology, petrology and mineralogy, publishing papers on the geology of the Himalayas in the records of the Geological Survey of India. He was a Fellow of the Royal and Geological Societies, and President of the Geological Association in 1894–5 : died Feb. 21, 1904.

McMAHON, SIR THOMAS, BARONET (1779–1860)

General : son of John McMahon : entered the Army before 1800 : saw active service in almost every quarter of the globe : served in the Portuguese Army in the, Peninsula : Adjutant-General in India : C. in C, Bombay, Feb. 1840, to April, 1847 : succeeded to the Baronetcy, 1817 : G.C.B. : Colonel of the loth foot : died April 10, 1860.

McMURDO, SIR WILLIAM MOGUNTA SCOTT (1819–1894)

Son of Lt-Colonel Archibald McMurdo : born May 30, 1819 : educated at Sandhurst : joined the 8th foot in 1837 : went out to Karachi, 1841 : head of the Q.M.G. department in Sind, 1842–7 : in Sir C. Napier's force in 1842 : at Miani, 1843; and Hyderabad, 1843 : was A.D.C. to Napier when C. in C., 1849–50 : in the Afridi operations, and in the forcing of the Kohat Pass, 1850 : Director-General of the land transport corps in the Crimea : A.D.C. to Queen Victoria : Brevet-Colonel : C.B. : Colonel Commandant of the military train, 1857 : Inspr-General of Volunteers, 1860–5 : commanded a District in Bengal, 1870–3 : Maj-General, 1868 : General, 1878 : K.C.B., 1881 : died March 2, 1894.

McNALTY, GEORGE WILLIAM (1837–)

Born 1837 : son of G. W. McNalty : educated at Dublin, Wiesbaden and London : joined the Army Medical Staff, 1863, and retired, 1892 : served in the British Ambulance in Franco-German war, 1871 : Ashanti war, 1873–4 : Russo-Turkish war : Afghan war, 1878–80, in the march from Kabul to Kandahar : Egyptian war, 1882 : Tel-el-Kebir : Hony. Surgeon to Viceroy of India : C.B.

McQUEEN, SIR JOHN WITHERS (1836–)

Born July 20, 1836 : son of Rev. John McQueen, Chaplain E. I. Co. : educated at Edinburgh Academy, and Trinity College, Glenalmond : entered Indian Army, 1854 : became Lt-General, 1895 : served in the Indian mutiny : in 4th Panjab Infantry at the siege of Delhi, relief of Lucknow, severely wounded (recommended for V.C.) : at the battles of Agra, Cawnpur, Bareli and other engagements : served against the Kabul Kheyl Waziris, 1859 : Mahsud Waziris, 1860, and 1881 : Bizotis, 1869 : Jowaki-Afridis, 1877–8 : commanded the Queen's Own Corps of Guides, 1871–3 : commanded 5th Panjab Infantry in Afghan war, 1878–80, at Peiwar Kotal, Sherpur, etc. : Brevet-Lt-Colonel and C.B. : A.D.C. to Queen Victoria and Brevet-Colonel, 1881–93 : commanded the Hazara expedition, 1888 : K.C.B., 1889 : Military Secretary to Panjab Government, 1883–5 : commanded the Hyderabad Contingent, 1885–6 : and Panjab Frontier Force, 1886–90 : appointed Colonel 57th Wilde's Rifles (late 4th Panjab Infantry, Panjab Frontier Force), 1904 : Unemployed Supernumerary List, 1897.