Curzon Wyllie
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William Hutt Curzon Wyllie
Early life
Curzon Wyllie was born at Cheltenham on 5 October 1848 to General William Wyllie (13 August 1802 – 26 May 1891) and his wife, Amelia (13 October 1806 – 14 January 1891). Third and youngest son of five children, Wyllie was educated at Marlborough College (1863–4) and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst (1865–6) before joining the army in October 1866 as ensign 106th foot (Durham Light Infantry), subsequently arriving in India in 1867. Both his elder brothers, John William Shaw Wyllie (1835–1870) and Francis Robert Shaw Wyllie (4 June 1837 – 1907) served in India. The latter Francis Shaw Wyllie joined the Bombay civil service, became under-secretary to the Bombay government, and died in London in February 1907.
Indian service
Arriving in India in February 1867, Wyllie was promoted to lieutenant in October 1868 and joined the Indian staff corps in 1869. He was posted to the
Wyllie was promoted to captain in October 1878 and transferred to the foreign department in January 1879, serving as cantonment magistrate of Nasirabad, assistant commissioner in Ajmer-Merwara, and subsequently as the assistant to Sir Robert Groves Sandeman, the governor-general's agent in Baluchistan. He was part of Major-General Sir Robert Phayre's contingent in the Second Anglo-Afghan War, when his actions earned him mentions in the Viceroy's dispatches. After the war, Wyllie was appointed the military secretary to the governor of Madras, William Patrick Adam (later also his brother-in-law) from December 1880 until Adam's death in the following May. On 29 December 1881, Wyllie married Katharine Georgiana Carmichael (15 July 1858 — 9 September 1931), second daughter of David Fremantle Carmichael of the Indian Civil Service. Made CIE in 1881, he was promoted to major in October 1886 and to lieutenant-colonel in 1892.
Wyllie served as the private secretary to acting governor
Return to England
In March 1901 Wyllie returned to Britain on being appointed the political aide-de-camp to
Assassination
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References
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- ^ Bandhu, Vishav (January 2021). Biography of Madanlal Dhingra. Prabhat Prakashan. Retrieved 19 February 2022.
- ISBN 978-0-7146-4580-3. Retrieved 25 March 2012.
- ^ EJ Beck, Open University, Retrieved 27 July 2015
Sources
- Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
- Gokhale: the Indian moderates and the British raj (1977) by B. R. Nanda.
- Raj: the making and unmaking of British India (1997) by Lawrence James.
- The Oxford history of modern India, 1740–1947 (1965) by Percival Spear.
- The British conquest and dominion of India (1989). by Penderel Moon.