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unusual facts about William Mansfield, 1st Viscount Sandhurst


Sandhurst Road railway station

Named after Lord Sandhurst, the Governor of Bombay between 1895 and 1900, the station was built in 1910 using funds from the Bombay City Improvement Trust, which he helped raise.


William Mansfield

William Mansfield, 1st Baron Sandhurst (1819–1876), British military commander, Commander-in-Chief of India, 1865–1870

William Mansfield, 1st Baron Sandhurst

General William Rose Mansfield, 1st Baron Sandhurst, GCB, GCSI, DCL (21 June 1819 – 23 June 1876), was a British military commander who served as Commander-in-Chief of India from 1865 to 1870.

In 1855, during the Crimean War, Mansfield was appointed military adviser to the Ambassador at Constantinople Lord Stratford de Redcliff, and accompanied him to the Crimea.


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