NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Albemarle, George Thomas Keppel, Earl of, 1799-1891 NRA: Keppel George Thomas (1799-1891) 6th Earl of Albemarle General DNB: Keppel, George Thomas, sixth earl of Albemarle (1799-1891), army officer LBT ID: LdAlbem6 VIAF ID: 41974897 LOC ID: n80007819 | B/BAP: 1799-06-13 DIED: 1891-02-21 |
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Son of the fourth earl (d. 1849); he left Westminster School to fight at Waterloo,
afterwards serving in the Ionian Islands and India; he published Personal
Narrative of a Journey from India to England, 2 vols (1825) and was whig MP for
East Norfolk (1832-35) and was private secretary to Lord John Russell. | |
REFERENCES TO WORKS BY George Thomas Keppel, sixth earl of Albemarle:
Personal Narrative of a Journey from India to England, by Bussorah, Bagdad,
the ruins of Babylon, Curdistan, the court of Persia, the western shore of the Caspian Sea,
Astrakhan, Nishney Novogorod, Moscow, and St. Petersburgh, in the Year 1824. Found 1.
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