->Citation bot Add: publisher. | Use this bot. Report bugs. | Suggested by Paloappie | Category:People_educated_at_Wellington_College,_Berkshire | #UCB_Category 115/445 |
robot: Create/update articles. If there is a mistake please report on my talk page. |
||
| Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} | |||
Colonel '''John Shakespear''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CMG|CIE|DSO}} (1 September 1861, [[Indore]] – 1942) was an officer of the [[Army of India|British Army in India]], an [[Indian Political Service]] officer, and an author.<ref name=WhoWho>{{cite journal|title=Shakespear, Lt.-Col. John|journal=Who's Who|page= 2221|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015047639912;view=1up;seq=2263}}</ref> He was the youngest of the three sons of Sir [[Richmond Shakespear]]. | Colonel '''John Shakespear''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CMG|CIE|DSO}} (1 September 1861, [[Indore]] – 1942) was an officer of the [[Army of India|British Army in India]], an [[Indian Political Service]] officer, and an author.<ref name=WhoWho>{{cite journal|title=Shakespear, Lt.-Col. John|journal=Who's Who|page= 2221|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015047639912;view=1up;seq=2263}}</ref> He was the youngest of the three sons of Sir [[Richmond Shakespear]]. | ||
| Line 21: | Line 22: | ||
[[Category:1861 births]] | [[Category:1861 births]] | ||
[[Category:1942 deaths]] | [[Category:1942 deaths]] | ||
[[Category:Military personnel of British India]] | |||
[[Category:British colonels]] | |||
[[Category:People educated at Wellington College, Berkshire]] | [[Category:People educated at Wellington College, Berkshire]] | ||
[[Category:Graduates of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst]] | [[Category:Graduates of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst]] | ||
[[Category:Indian Political Service officers]] | [[Category:Indian Political Service officers]] | ||
[[Category: | [[Category:British people in colonial India]] | ||
[[Category:Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment officers]] | [[Category:Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment officers]] | ||
[[Category:Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George]] | [[Category:Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George]] | ||
[[Category:Companions of the Order of the Indian Empire]] | [[Category:Companions of the Order of the Indian Empire]] | ||
Latest revision as of 15:47, 18 September 2022
Colonel John Shakespear CMG CIE DSO (1 September 1861, Indore – 1942) was an officer of the British Army in India, an Indian Political Service officer, and an author.[1] He was the youngest of the three sons of Sir Richmond Shakespear.
After education at Wellington College, Berkshire and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, Shakespear was commissioned into the Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment (Royal Canadians) on 22 July 1881 as a 2nd lieutenant and was promoted to lieutenant on 1 July 1881.[2]
He was an intelligence officer for the Lushai Expeditionary Force in 1888. He served with the Chin-Lushai Expedition in 1889–1890 and was awarded the DSO in 1890.[1] He served at Lushai in 1892 and was in command of the force that took part in the operations in the South Lushai Hills.[3] He was promoted to major in 1895 and was appointed CIE in 1896.[1] He served from 1891 to 1896 as Superintendent of the South Lushai Hills.[4] He was appointed Assistant Commissioner, Assam in 1896 and Deputy Commissioner, Assam in 1897. He served as Political Agent in Manipur from 1905 to 1917. He was appointed CMG in 1917.[1]
Shakespear married in 1892.[1] He was keenly interested in the custody of his father's papers and in the history of the Shakespear family. John Shakespear left notes on the state of Manipur and its royal family and some draft chapters of his autobiography.[5]
Selected publications[edit | edit source]
- The Lushais and the Land they Live in. 1894.
- The Lushei Kuki Clans. Macmillan. 1912.
- The Thirty-fourth Division, 1915–1918. H. F. & G. Witherby. 1921.
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 "Shakespear, Lt.-Col. John". Who's Who: 2221.
- ↑ Hart, Henry George (1884). The New Army List, Militia List, Yeomanry Cavalry List, and Indian Civil Service List.
- ↑ The New Army List, and Militia List. April 1911. p. 1207.
- ↑ Template:Cite The Indian Biographical Dictionary
- ↑ "Shakespear, John, 1861–1942, Colonel; Reference: RSAA/SC/S/JS". National Archives (discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk).