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130:, on 13 February 1852. He was one of six children to Herbert Main Dobbie and Ellen Locker. His father, a major in the 30th Madras Infantry, took the family to India and Burma and it was there that the family name changed from Dobie - the Hindu word for laundryman. When his father died of fever, his mother returned to England with the family. In England, Dobbie attended Pilherds, a boarding school near
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