George More-Molyneux
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Major-General George Hand More-Molyneux (1851–1903) was a senior
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officer.


Biography

Born in Littleton, Surrey on 6 May 1851, George More-Molyneux was the son of Lt.-Col. A. More-Molyneux, H.E.I.C., and grandson of J. More-Molyneux, of
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, Surrey. He was educated at the
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, and Bedford Grammar School. He joined the
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in 1870, and was Commander of the
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in
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during the
Second Anglo-Afghan War The Second Anglo-Afghan War (Dari: جنگ دوم افغان و انگلیس, ) was a military conflict fought between the British Raj and the Emirate of Afghanistan from 1878 to 1880, when the latter was ruled by Sher Ali Khan of the Barakzai dy ...
, between 1878 and 1880. He took part in the
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in
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, between 1884 and 1885, and fought at the Battle of Hasheen, the Battle of Takdul, and at the
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. He fought in the
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, between 1885 and 1889, was British Military Attaché in
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, between 1890 and 1892, and commanded the
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, between 1892 and 1893. He served during the Tirah Campaign on the North West Frontier, between 1897 and 1898, was Commander of
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District,
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, between 1898 and 1901, British Representative in Aden, in 1901, and Commander of
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District,
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, between 1901 and 1903. Major General George More-Molyneux was invested as a Companion of the
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in the
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. He died in
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on 21 November 1903.Charles Edward Buckland, ''Dictionary of Indian Biography'', 1906, p. 299


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