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Amherst of Arracan, William Pitt Amherst, Earl, 1773-1857

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Personal name headingAmherst of Arracan, William Pitt Amherst, Earl, 1773-1857
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Variant(s)Amherst, Earl, 1773-1857
Amherst, Lord, 1773-1857
Amherst of Arakan, Earl, 1773-1857
Amherst of Arakan, William Pitt Amherst, Earl, 1773-1857
Amherst of Arracan, Earl, 1773-1857
Amherst, William Pitt Amherst, 1st earl, 1773-1857
Amherst, William Pitt Amherst, Earl, 1773-1857
Holmesdale, Viscount, 1773-1857
Viscount Holmesdale, 1773-1857
Birth date1773
Death date1857
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Found inNUCMC data from Duke Univ. Lib. for Hayne, H. Papers, 1797-1828 (Amherst)
LC manual auth. cd. (hdg.: Amherst, William Pitt Amherst, 1st earl, 1773-1857; variants: William Pitt Amherst; Viscount Holmesdale; Earl Amherst of Arakan; Earl Amherst of Arracan)
DNB, 1903. (Amherst, William Pitt, Earl Amherst of Arracan (1773-1857); statesman; nephew of Jeffrey Amherst; gov. gen. of India 1823-8; declared war on king of Burmah, 1824; created Earl Amherst, 1826)
Abel, C. Narrative of a journey in the interior of China ... 1818: t.p. (Lord Amherst's embassy to the court of Pekin)