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Broughton, Thomas Duer (1778–1835), army officer in the East India Company and writer on India  

Thompson Cooper

revised by James Lunt

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23 September 2004
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23 September 2004

Broughton, Thomas Duer (1778–1835), army officer in the East India Company and writer on India, was born in Bristol on 8 March 1778, son of the Revd Thomas Broughton, rector of St Peter's, Bristol, and his wife, Jane; he was great-grandson of the ...

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Campbell, Donald (1751–1804), army officer and travel writer  

Stanley Lane-Poole

revised by Elizabeth Baigent

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23 September 2004
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Campbell, Donald (1751–1804), army officer and travel writer, of Barbreck, Argyll, is best known for his A journey over land to India … by Donald Campbell of Barbreck, who formerly commanded a regiment of cavalry in the service of the nabob of the Carnatic: in a series of letters to his son...

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Fermor, Sir Patrick Michael [Paddy] Leigh (1915–2011), special operations officer and author  

John Ure

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08 January 2015

Fermor, Sir Patrick Michael [Paddy] Leigh (1915–2011), special operations officer and author, was born on 11 February 1915 at 20 Endsleigh Gardens, Bloomsbury, London, the younger child and only son of Sir Lewis Leigh Fermor (1880–1954), geologist, and his first wife, Muriel Aileen (otherwise Eileen or Æileen), ...

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Fermor, Sir Patrick Michael [Paddy] Leigh (1915–2011)  

Maker: Joan Leigh Fermor

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Sir Patrick Michael Leigh Fermor (1915–2011) by Joan Leigh Fermor, 1946 © Patrick Fermor Archive, Trustees of the National Library of Scotland

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Northall, John (1723?–1759), army officer and travel writer  

B. H. Soulsby

revised by Roger T. Stearn

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Northall, John (1723?–1759), army officer and travel writer, entered the service as a gentleman cadet in the Royal Regiment of Artillery on 1 July 1741 and was promoted to lieutenant fireworker on 1 April 1742. He served under Thomas Pattison with the ...

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Warburton, George Drought (1816–1857), army officer and writer on Canada  

W. P. Courtney

revised by Elizabeth Baigent

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23 September 2004
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23 September 2004

Warburton, George Drought (1816–1857), army officer and writer on Canada, the third son of George Warburton, of Aughrim, Galway, formerly inspector-general of constabulary in Ireland, and his wife, Anna, the daughter of Thomas Acton of Westaston, co. Wicklow, was born at Wicklow on 2 June 1816. He was educated at the ...

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Warburton, George Drought (1816–1857)  

Maker: Herbert Watkins

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George Drought Warburton (1816–1857) by Herbert Watkins, late 1850s © National Portrait Gallery, London