Richard Jones (East India Company officer)

Lieutenant-General Sir Richard Jones, KCB (1754–1835) enlisted in the Bombay Army in 1770, commanded 4 companies of artillery in Third Anglo-Mysore War during 1790–1792, commanded the Bombay army detachment at Siege of Bharatpur (1805), commanding officer at Surat 1805–8, commander in chief in Bombay in 1808, commander of artillery 1808–16.^[1] Was made Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath for his actions at Bharatpur.^[2]

Footnotes

1. Bombay Artillery List of Officers, Colonel F. W. M. Spring, page 72
2. The East India military calendar: containing the services of General and Field Officers of the Indian Army, Volume 3, page 125

References

• Great Britain India Office (1819). The India List and India Office List. Vol. I. Harrison. p. 127. Retrieved 8 January 2009.