Dictionary of Indian Biography/Dalton, Edward Tuite
DALTON, EDWARD TUITE (1816–1880)
Entered the Army, 1835 : in expeditions against frontier tribes of Assam, 1839–40, and 1842 : commanded an expedition and captured the Mishmi chief who had murdered the French missionaries Kirk and Bourry on the Tibetan frontier : Commissioner of Chota Nagpur in 1858 : with the Field Force against the Palamau rebels, and in 1858–9 against the Singbhum insurgents : C.S.L : Maj-General, 1877 : died Dec. 30, 1880 : wrote The Descriptive Ethnology of Bengal, 1872.