George Cherry (30 August 17936 January 1848) was a Member of Parliament for

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from 1820 to 1826. Between 1829 and 1830 he was the

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when he was living at

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. (with amendments of 1963, Public Record Office) His father,

George Frederick Cherry George Frederick Cherry (1761–1799) was a British-born political officer of the East India Company, murdered in Benares by Wazir Ali Khan as part of a minor insurrection against the British. Biography George Frederick Cherry was born in 1761 in ...

was

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Oudh The Oudh State (, also Kingdom of Awadh, Kingdom of Oudh, or Awadh State) was a princely state in the Awadh region of North India until its annexation by the British in 1856. The name Oudh, now obsolete, was once the anglicized name of ...

, murdered by

Wazir Ali Khan Wazir Ali Khan (19 April 1780 – 15 May 1817) was the fourth Nawab wazir of Oudh from 21 September 1797 to 21 January 1798, and the adopted son of Asaf-Ud-Daulah. Life He was the adopted son of Asaf-Ud-Dowlah, who had no son. He adopted a ...

in 1799. One of his sons, George Cherry, was an English cricketer. Another son Major General Apsley Cherry-Garrard was the father of the polar explorer

Apsley Cherry-Garrard Apsley George Benet Cherry-Garrard (2 January 1886 – 18 May 1959) was an English explorer of Antarctica. He was a member of the ''Terra Nova'' expedition and is acclaimed for his 1922 account of this expedition, ''The Worst Journey in th ...

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