Major Mawdistly Gaussen Best

• Burke, Bernard, Sir. A genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry of Great Britain & Ireland 6th ed. London : Harrison 1879. Vol I. page 118

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Mawdistly Gaussen Best
The Peerage #141098,
Born on 23 August 1826.1
Son of James Best and Harriet Susannah Gaussen.
Married Katherine Annabella Brockman, daughter of Reverend Tatton Brockman, on 14 April 1864.
Died on 14 July 1906 at age 79, without issue.
Officer in the 34th Regiment.
Fought in -

• the Siege of Sebastopol.
• the assault on Redan.
• the Indian Mutiny in 1857.

Brevet Major. Justice of the Peace (J.P.) for Kent. High Sheriff of Kent in 1881.

He lived at Park House, Boxley, Kent, England
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