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Charles Stoddart
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23 July 1806 – 17 June 1842
Geschiedenis
Lieutenant Colonel Charles Stoddart was a British officer and diplomat. He was born in Ipswich and educated at Norwich School and later commissioned into the Royal Staff Corps from Royal Military College, Sandhurst, in 1823. He served under Mr Ellis, and Sir J. McNeill, ambassadors in Tehran and played a part in the release of Herat from siege in 1838. From Herat he was sent to Bukhara but was imprisoned by the Emir Nasrullah Khan. In 1941 Captain Conolly tried to secure his release but instead both were beheaded on 17 June 1942