ÿþ<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>MACKESON FREDERICK (1807-1853)</TITLE> <style type="text/css"> .BODY { background-color: #EAF1F7; background-image: url('images/gtbh.jpg'); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-attachment: fixed; background-position: center; color: #0066CC;} .C1{text-align: justify;color: #0066CC;FONT-size: SMALL;FONT-family: Tahoma;} .BIB{text-align: center;color: #000099;FONT-size: SMALL;FONT-family: Tahoma;} .CONT{text-align: right;color: #FF0000;FONT-size: SMALL;FONT-family: Tahoma;} </style><META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="MACKESON,FREDERICK,Person,Person"> <META http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></HEAD> <BODY class="BODY" oncontextmenu="return false" ondragstart="return false" onselectstart="return false"> <FONT ALIGN="JUSTIFY" FACE="Tahoma"> <p class="C1">&#65279MACKESON, FREDERICK (1807-1853), son of William and Harriet Mackeson, was born on 28 September 1807, and educated at the King's School, Canterbury, and in France. In 1825, he joined the Bengal Native Infantry. In 1831, and for several years afterwards, his regiment was stationed at Ludhi&#257&#7751&#257. In 1832, he was appointed assistant political agent at Ludhi&#257&#7751&#257 and in that capacity accompanied Claude Martin Wade on a Mission to Lahore and Bah&#257walpur in connection with the Indus navigation scheme. From 1835 to 1838, he was agent for the navigation of the Indus and the Sutlej, first at Bah&#257walpur and then at Mi&#7789hanko&#7789. He efficiently served British political interests in the name of commercial enterprise, keeping a vigilant watch over the Sikhs with a view to checking them from extending their influence towards Shik&#257rpur and Sindh. He also played an important role in the negotiations between Sir William Macnaghten and Mah&#257r&#257j&#257 Ra&#7751j&#299t Si&#7749gh which resulted in the Tripartite treaty. In 1838, he proceeded to Pesh&#257war with the concurrence of the Lahore Darb&#257r to win over the people of the <u>Kh</u>aibar region, to the side of Sh&#257h Shuj&#257'. He hobnobbed both with the Sikhs and the Af<u>gh</u>&#257ns soliciting help for the <u>Kh</u>aibar operations. He remained at Pesh&#257war till 1842.</p> <p class="C1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; During the first Anglo-Sikh war Mackeson was with Sir Harry Smith's division in the field and was present at 'Al&#299v&#257l. In March 1846, he was appointed superintendent of the cis-Sutlej territory. In the second Anglo-Sikh war he was with Hugh Gough as Governor-General's agent. From 1851 to 1853, he served as commissioner at Pesh&#257war, where he was assassinated by a local guardsman on 10 September 1853.</p> </font> <p class="BIB"> BIBLIOGRAPHY<p class="C1"><ol class="C1"><li class="C1"> Fauja Singh, <i>Military System of the Sikhs (1799-1849) </i>. Delhi, 1864<BR> <li class="C1"> Hasrat, B. J., <i>Anglo-Sikh Relations (1799-1849) </i>. Hoshiarpur, 1968<BR> <li class="C1"> Buckland, C.E., <i>Dictionary of Indian Biography</i>. London, 1906<BR> </ol><p class="CONT">B. J. Hasrat<br></p><BR> </font><img src="counter.aspx" width="1px" height="1px" alt=""></HTML></BODY>