Crawford Trotter Chamberlain
1821–1902
Army officer. Cadet in the Bengal army, 1837; commanded the Fifth Janbaz Cavalry, 1841; captain and brevet major, 1849; lieutenant-colonel, 1857; colonel, 1862; brigadier-general, 1866; major-general, 1870; lieutenant-general, 1877; general, 1880. Served in the First Anglo-Afghan War (1839–42), and the Anglo-Sikh wars (1845–9), and played an important role in averting the Punjab mutiny (1857). Retired in 1887. Knighted, 1897.
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Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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