Major-General Sir Thomas Dennehy, CIE

Order of the Indian Empire

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  (1829–1915), born in County Cork

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, Ireland

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 and educated in Paris

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, was an administrator in British India.

Dennehy served in the suppression of Sonthal rebellion in 1855–56 and during the Indian Rebellion of 1857

Indian Rebellion of 1857

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. He was Political Agent in Dholpur

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 in 1879–85. He was extra Groom in Waiting to Queen Victoria in 1888 and to Edward VII in 1901. He was in charge of the queen's Indian servants and received a Grace and Favour apartment at Hampton Court Palace

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. He resigned in 1900. Unusually, his daughter Elsie was given joint permission to occupy the apartment with her father, even though she had married a Mr. Hallaham in 1894.

By 1892, Dennehy had a residence in Ireland, at Brooklodge, Fermoy

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, Co. Cork.

One of Dennehy's servants in India, Mohammed Buhsh, was one of the two Indian servants sent, by Sir John Tyler, Governor of the North-West Provinces, to Queen Victoria in 1887; the other was Abdul Karim

Abdul Karim (the Munshi)

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, known as The Munshi (teacher), who replaced the more famous John Brown in the queen's affections.