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George Thomas d'Aguilar (11 August 1783 – 9 October 1839) was

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officer.

Family

D'Aguilar was born in

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, to Benjamin d'Aguilar and Jane d'Aguilar, D'Aguilar received the Christian Anglican baptism in May 1784. He was a descendant of

Baron Diego Pereira d'Aguilar Baron Diego Lopes Pereira d'Aguilar (born 1699 Portugal; died 10 August 1759, London) was a Portuguese-born London-based Jewish businessman, community leader and philanthropist, originally a Portuguese converso, who lived in the 18th century. He w ...

and cousin of George Charles D'Aguilar. He married with Catherine Burton and they had 8 children, including the Rev. John Burton D'Aguilar,

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of Ashwick. His wife Catherine was the aunt of the explorer Sir

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Military career

D'Aguilar traveled to

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on 14 November 1790 and entered the

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of the

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. Having secured a commission on the establishment of the honorable service of the

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, D'Aguilar traveled to

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and was sent to the 13th Native Infantry of Madras. In August 1798 he was commissioned by the H.M.S 78th. He was promoted to the post of Lieutenant on 29 May 1800 in

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. In 1802 he became a volunteer to participate in the French campaign in Egyptian Expedition, but was not accepted. He served in the battalion's advance with Colonel Philpot's brigade, and subsequently in Sir Dyson Marshal's division, he commanded 5

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at Mundla in 23 to 27 April 1818, and under the personal direction of Gen. J. Watson, in HMS 14th regiment he was allowed to join the 1st battalion 13th regiment. In August 1818 he went to

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and then to

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with some volunteers, but the conflicts in those places were repressed and he returned his corps at

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.The East India Military Calendar: Containing the Services of General and Field Officers of the Indian Army, Volume 2
pp. 448-450

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, Kingsbury, Parbury and Allen, 1824 He was grandfather of Francis d'Aguilar. He died in 1839 in

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