Dictionary of Indian Biography/Blakiston, John

by Charles Edward Buckland

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BLAKISTON, JOHN (1788–1867)

Son of Sir Mathew Blakiston, Bart.: born 1788: educated at Winchester: joined the Madras Engineers and the 27th regt.: as Major, present at Assaye, Bourbon, the Mauritius, and in the Peninsula campaign: the sole survivor of the regiment massacred in the mutiny of Vellore, 1806: and returned with (Sir R.R.) Gillespie, who came to the rescue: wrote Twelve Years Military Adventures, 1829: and Twenty Years in Retirement, 1836: died 1867.