CAVAGNARI

Sir Pierre Louis Napoleon ( eld. son of Major the Count Adolphe Cavagnari, private secretary to Prince Lucien Buonaparte ). b. Stenay, department of the Meuse, France 4 July 1841; ed. at Christ’s hospital, London; granted a certificate of naturalisation 7 Dec. 1857; ensign 1 Bengal Fusiliers, 9 April 1858; held political charge of the Kohat district, April 1866 to May 1877; deputy comr. of Peshawar, May 1877; negotiated treaty of Gandamuck with Yakub Khan, Ameer of Afghanistan 26 May 1879; British resident at Cabul 24 July 1879; C.S.I. 1 Jany. 1877, K.C.B. 19 July 1879; killed by Afghans in citadel, Cabul 3 Sep. 1879. Kaliprasanna’s Life of sir L. Cavagnari 1881, portrait ; Shadbolt’s Afghan campaign (1882) 37–41, portrait ; Graphic xx , 4, 29, 261, 304 (1879), portraits .