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unusual facts about Sir Frederick Currie, 2nd Baronet


Corrie family

From Sir Frederick descend the Currie baronets —whose son was Sir Frederick Larkins Currie, 2nd Baronet (1823–1900), whose sons were Sir Frederick Reeve Currie, 3rd Baronet (1851–1930), and Sir Walter Louis Rackham Currie, 4th Baronet (1856–1941).


Battle of Chillianwala

The East India Company's Commissioner for the Punjab, Frederick Currie, sent several forces of locally raised troops to help quell the revolt.

Bibby Line

In 2002 Sir Derek Bibby, 2nd baronet, and great-great-grandson of the founder and past chairman and president of the firm, was aged 80 and terminally ill with leukemia.

Mark John Currie

His younger brother, Frederick was created 1st Baronet in 1847 for his services to the Government of India in negotiating the treaties of Lahore and Bhyrowal.

Siege of Multan

Early in 1848, the newly appointed Commissioner in the Punjab, Sir Frederick Currie, demanded that Mulraj pay duties and taxes previously paid to the central Durbar of the Sikh Empire and now in arrears.

Sir Frederick Currie, 1st Baronet

He proclaimed himself a servant of the Maharajah and the Khalsa and called upon the people of the Punjab to rise in arms and expel the British.

In 1842 a new Governor-General, Lord Ellenborough, began preparations for war and in 1844 his successor, Sir Henry Hardinge, a veteran of the Peninsular War under Sir Arthur Wellesley, accelerated these preparations.


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