Richard Harte Keatinge
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Life and career
Keatinge was born in Dublin, the younger son of Richard Keatinge and Harriet Augusta Joseph, the third daughter of Samuel Joseph. His father was a successful barrister who served for many years as the Irish Probate judge. His mother came from a prosperous London merchant family. It was a religiously-mixed marriage, his father being a Protestant and his mother Jewish.[1]
He was 32 years old, and a major in the Bombay Artillery, Bombay Army during the Indian Mutiny when the following deed took place on 17 March 1858 at the assault of Chundairee for which he was awarded the VC:[2] Template:Quote
In 1862 he was transferred to the Royal Artillery and then to the Bombay Staff Corps of the British Indian Army.
In 1868, Colonel Keatinge designed Rajkumar College, Rajkot, which was formally opened in 1870. The college was founded for the education of the princely order by the princes and chiefs of Kathiawad for their sons and relations.
From 1871 to 1873 he was Chief Commissioner of Ajmer-Merwara.
He became the first Chief Commissioner of Assam[3] in 1874, remaining in this position until 1878. Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
He later achieved the rank of lieutenant general.
In retirement, he settled at Horsham, Sussex, where he died in 1904. By his wife Harriet Pottinger, he had eleven children.
Legacy
A road in the Indian city of Shillong, which was the capital of the British Province of Assam, where Keatinge had served as Chief Commissioner, has been named Keatinge Road in his honour.
References
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Listed in order of publication year
- The Register of the Victoria Cross (1981, 1988 and 1997)
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- Ireland's VCs Template:ISBN (Dept of Economic Development, 1995)
- Monuments to Courage (David Harvey, 1999)
- Irish Winners of the Victoria Cross (Richard Doherty & David Truesdale, 2000)
External links
- Location of grave and VC medal (West Sussex)
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- 1825 births
- 1904 deaths
- Burials in West Sussex
- 19th-century Irish people
- Irish officers in the British Army
- Military personnel from Dublin (city)
- Irish recipients of the Victoria Cross
- British Indian Army generals
- British East India Company Army officers
- Indian Rebellion of 1857 recipients of the Victoria Cross
- Companions of the Order of the Star of India
- Royal Artillery officers
- Bombay Artillery officers
- Founders of Indian schools and colleges
- Indian Staff Corps officers
- Bombay Staff Corps officers
- People from Assam