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service of Amrit Rao at Poona. Leaving such adventurous employment, he joined Lord Lake in 1804, and raised and commanded a regiment of irregular horse under him and Sir David Ochterlony in Nipal and Rajputana : local Lt-Colonel, 1819 : his regiment, "Gardner's Horse," became the 2nd Bengal Cavalry. He settled at Khasganj, N.W.P. : died July 29, 1835.

GARNETT, ARTHUR WILLIAM (1829–1861)

Son of William Garnett : born June 1, 1829 : educated at Addiscombe : went to India in the Bengal Engineers, 1848 : in the siege of Multan in 1848 : held the Chenab fords at Gujarat, 1849 : was in the pursuit of the Sikhs : served in Kohat in 1850 : reconstructed the fort there, and made "Fort Garnett" and other defensive positions and roads on the Afghan frontier : engaged in frontier expeditions, and kept the frontier quiet in the mutiny : in the P.W.D. Secretariat : died in 1861 in Calcutta : Colonel.

GARSTIN, JOHN (1756–1820)

Maj-General : born 1756 : educated for the Army : given a commission, by George III, in the Engineers : the first of his family to go out to India : rose to be Maj-General of his Corps : Surveyor-General of Bengal, and Chief Engineer : chiefly employed in the construction of civil works, especially the large "Golah" at Bankipur, intended as a granary in case of famine : was also the architect of Government House, Calcutta : "Garstin's Place" in that city still preserves his name : translated Paul Frisi's Rivers and Torrents from the Italian, 1818 : the work is dedicated to Warren Hastings, his friend and patron : died Feb. 16, 1820 : and was buried at Calcutta.

GARTH, SIR RICHARD (1820–1903)

Son of the Rev. Richard Garth : born March 11, 1820 : educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford : he was Captain of the Oxford cricket eleven in 1840 and 1841 : called to the bar, at Lincoln's Inn, in 1847 : was Q.C. and a Bencher in 1866 : was Conservative M.P. for Guildford, 1866–8 : and Chief Justice of Bengal from 1875 to 1886 : knighted in 1875 : made a Privy Councillor, 1889 : after his retirement retained his interest in Indian questions : wrote A few Plain Truths about India : died March 23, 1903.

GARVOCK, SIR JOHN ( ? –1878)

General : entered the Army, 1835 : Brig-Major in Sir Harry Smith's Division in the Satlaj campaign, 1845–6 : at all the battles : on his Staff in the Boer war, 1848, and Kafir war, 1850–2 : Q.M.G. in Ceylon : Brigadier at Dover : commanded the Peshawar Division : succeeded Sir N. Chamberlain in command in the Umbeyla campaign, 1863 : K.C.B. : commanded the N. district in England, 1866–71 : the S. district, 1877–8 : G.C.B., 1875 : died Nov. 10, 1878.

GASELEE, SIR ALFRED (1843–)

Born June 3, 1843 : entered the Indian Army, 1863, and became Colonel, 1893 : Brig-General, N.W. Frontier, 1898 : served in Aybssinian expedition, 1868 : Bizoti expedition, 1869 : Jowaki-Afridi expedition, 1877–8 : Afghan war, 1878–80 : Kandahar : Brevet-Major : Zhob Valley, 1884 : Hazara, 1891 : C.B., 1891 : Isaza, 1892 : Waziristan, 1894–5 : Tirah expedition, commanding 2nd Brigade, 1897–8 : K.C.B. , 1898 : Officiating Q.M.G. India, 1898 : commanding 2nd class District, 1898–1901 : commanded British Forces in China, 1900 : Maj-General : G.C.I.E., 1901.

GATACRE, JOHN (1841–)

Son of Edward Lloyd Gatacre : born 1841 : educated privately : joined the Bombay Army, 1857, and Bombay Staff Corps, 1866 : commanded his regt., 1884–91 : Brig-General at Nagpur, 1891–6 : Maj-General, 1897 : served in the Indian mutiny at Khandesh, 1858 : China war, 1860 : Afghan war, 1879–80 : Burmese expedition, 1886–8 : C.B. 1887.

GATACRE, SIR WILLIAM FORBES (1843–)

Born 1843 : entered the Army, 1862 : Staff College, 1874 : served in the Hazara expedition as D.A.G. and D.Q.M.G., 1888 : D.S.O. : Burma, 1889 : Chitral, 1895 : C.B. : Soudan, 1898 : K.C.B. : President of the Plague Committee, Bombay, 1897 : commanded 3rd Division in S. Africa, 1899–1900 : Maj-General commanding the 10th Division, 4th Army Corps, at Colchester till 1904.