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in the 4th Foot
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Eleanor, daughter of Benjamin Macnair and Mary Rennie Miller of Greenfields. They married on 23 June 1859 at Falkirk, Stirlingshire in Scotland and the couple subsequently had three children, two boys Richard (in 1860) and Reginald (1862) and later a daughter (1864 in Auckland New
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responsible, in conjunction with the commissariat department, for arranging supplies for the
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on 1 October 1878 and took command of British forces in the
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Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage, and Companionage
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