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Thomas Dennehy

Thomas Dennehy

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Major-General Sir Thomas Dennehy KCIE (1829–1915), born in County Cork, Ireland and educated in Paris, was an administrator in British India.

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Dennehy served in the suppression of Sonthal rebellion in 1855–56 and during the Indian Rebellion.[1] He was Political Agent in Dholpur in 1879–85.[1] He was extra Groom in Waiting to Queen Victoria in 1888 and to her successor King Edward VII from 1901.[2]

By 1892, Dennehy had a residence in Ireland, at Brooklodge, Fermoy, County Cork.[1] In January 1896, he was made a Knight Commander of the Most Eminent Order of the Indian Empire (KCIE).[3]

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  1. [1]
    Rao, C. Hayavadana (1915). The Indian Biographical Dictionary.
  2. [2]
    "No. 27336". The London Gazette. 23 July 1901. p. 4838.
  3. [3]
    Great Britain. India Office The India List and India Office List for 1905, p. 145, at Google Books
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