George Trebeck
Male, Deceased Person
1800 – 1825
Who was George Trebeck?
George Trebeck was born in Middlesex, England in the year 1800. He moved to Calcutta, West Bengal circa 1815 with his father Charles Trebeck and brother of the same name. George Trebeck, who was trained as a solicitor, was recruited by William Moorcroft at the age of nineteen as his geographer and draftsman and second in charge of an exploratory expedition which was to take him through the Himalayan provinces of Hindustan, the Punjab, Ladakh, Kashmir, Peshawar, Kabul, Kunduz, Bokhara and eventually lead to his death.
George Trebeck perished on his first and only expedition with William Moorcroft on August 30, 1825 in Shah Merdon, Afghanistan.
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- Born
- 1800
Middlesex - Nationality
- England
- Lived in
- Kolkata
(1815 - 1819)
- Kolkata
- Died
- Aug 30, 1825
Shah Merdon
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on July 23, 2013
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