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St George Corbet Gore

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Colonel St George Corbet Gore (CSI) (1849-1913) was an English army officer and Surveyor General of India from 1899 to 1904.

He was born on 24 February 1849 and educated at Lancing College before being gazetted as lieutenant in the Royal Engineers in 1870. He served with distinction through the Second Anglo-Afghan War (1878-1880) and was mentioned in dispatches. He was appointed Surveyor General of India in 1899 and made Companion of the Order of the Star of India in 1903.

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