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Victor Duleep Singh
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The eldest son of the Maharaja Duleep Singh
Other names
Victor Albert Jay Duleep Singh
Place of birth
Location(s)
SL4 6DL
United Kingdom
Place of death
France
About
Victor Duleep Singh was the eldest son of the Maharaja Duleep Singh and Princess Bamba. He studied at Eton College and then Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1887 he joined the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst, having gained special dispensation to join the army from his godmother, Queen Victoria. He held various positions in the army but resigned from the Royal Dragoons in 1898.
In January 1898 Victor married Lady Anne Blanche Alice of Coventry. She was the sister of his friend George and daughter of the Earl of Coventry.
During the First World War, Victor was ordered to remain in Paris and died in France shortly before the war ended.
Bance, Peter, The Duleep Singhs: The Photograph Album of Queen Victoria's Maharajah (Stroud: Sutton, 2004)
Bance, Peter, Sovereign, Squire and Rebel: Maharajah Duleep Singh and the Heirs of a Lost Kingdom (London: Coronet House, 2009)
Singh, Ganda, Correspondence of Maharajah Duleep Singh (Patiala: Punjabi University, 1977)
Visram, Rozina, Asians in Britain: 400 Years of History (London: Pluto, 2002)
Mss Eur E377/2, letters 1880–97, Asian and African Studies Reading Room, British Library, St Pancras
Prince Victor Albert Jay Duleep Singh as Akbar, by Alexander Bassano, photogravure by Walker & Boutall, photogravure, 1897; published 1899, NPG Ax41069
© National Portrait Gallery, London, Creative Commons, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/
Image credit
Prince Victor Albert Jay Duleep Singh as Akbar, by Alexander Bassano, photogravure by Walker & Boutall, photogravure, 1897; published 1899, NPG Ax41069
© National Portrait Gallery, London, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/
