Francis Bacon Longe (October 31, 1856 - June 2, 1922) was a British surveyor, cartographer, and military officer. He attended Cheltenham College before entering the Royal Military Academy Woolwich at the end of 1873. He received his commission in 1876 and joined the Royal Engineers and volunteered for service in India. After arriving in India in January 1879, he received orders to Jellalabad, Afghanistan, and was soon assigned the the 7th Company, Bengal Sappers and Miners. His unit fought in the Second Anglo-Afghan War and Longe was among the first troops to enter Kabul. He was appointed to the Survey of India in 1880, and surveyed around Kabul and Kandahar in 1880 and 1881. He worked in Mysore and the United Provinces from 1881 until 1885, when he was appointed Personal Assistant to the Surveyor-General and sent to Calcutta. He served as Survey Officer on several survey missions, including the 1894 Chin-Manipur Commission. He was appointed Assitant Surveyor-General in 1896 and served as Survey Officer for the 1897-1898 Burma-China Boundary Commission. He was appointed Deputy Surveyor-General in 1900. He served as Surveyor-General of India from 1904 through 1911 when he held the rank of lieutenant colonel. He died in London in 1922. While in India he fell in love with May Ethel Marion Calliope, an English woman that had been born in Bengal who was already married with two sons. She divorced her first husband (a Mr. Sankey) and she and Longe married almost immediately after it was final on March 31, 1905. Their marriage did not produce any more children.



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