Notes | also known as: Bir Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana, Bīra Śamśera Jaṅga Bahādura Rāṇā, Vīra Śamśera Jaṅga Rāṇā Bahādura;
born: 10 December 1852;
died: 5 March 1901 at Lal Durbar, Kathmandu (http://www.royalark.net/Nepal/lamb4.htm);
father: Dhīra Śamśera Jaṅga Kũvara Rāṇā;
spouse: Mahārānī Kumārī Rājyālakṣmī;
children: Gehendra Śamśera Jaṅga Bahādura Rāṇā, Dharma Śamśera Jaṅga Bahādura Rāṇā, Cakra Śamśera Jaṅga Bahādura Rāṇā, Rudra Śamśera Jaṅga Bahādura Rāṇā, Teja Śamśera Jaṅga Bahādura Rāṇā, Pratāpa Śamśera Jaṅga Bahādura Rāṇā, Indra Śamśera Jaṅga Bahādura Rāṇā, Ānanda Śamśera Jaṅga Bahādura Rāṇā, and Dharendra Śamśera Jaṅga Bahādura Rāṇā (see Śamaśera 1999: vaṃśavṛkṣa 8 ka);
details:
held the title of Lieutenant Colonel by the age of six (Adhikari 1984: 188 n. 106)
in October 1871 (VS 1928), by then Colonel, appointed as vākila in Calcutta (Adhikari 1984: 104 n. 113);
after the death of Bādrī Narasiṃha Kũvara Rāṇā in May 1874, by then Lieutenant General, appointed as Governor in Palpa;
held the title of Prime Minister and Commander-in-Chief (1885–1901);
appointed GCSI by Queen Victoria in 1897 (London Gazette of 22 June 1897, p. 3439, see https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/26864/page/3439);
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