Baldwin, George, 1743?-1826

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1760 travelled to Cyprus; 1763-1768 travelled to Acre; 1768 returned to England; 1768-c 1773 explored possible routes to India via the Red Sea; 1774 travelled to Cairo via the holy caravan from Mecca, then returned to England; 1774 secured employment with the East India Company; 1775-1779 merchant operating out of Cairo; 1786-1796 appointed to Egypt as consul-general; 1798 left Egypt; 1800 advisor to the British Expedition to Egypt.

Epithet: author, diplomat and merchant

British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001394.0x000116

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referencedIn Vol. viii. July-Dec. 1777.Nathaniel Middleton, Resident at Lucknow: Correspondence with W. Hastings: 1774-1798.William Palmer, Major, afterwards General: Correspondence with W. Hastings: 1777-1816.Sir John Mcpherson, Member of the Council, afterwards... British Library
referencedIn VOL. III.-Letters from Warren Hastings (Governor-General of India) to Sir Elijah Impey; with rough drafts of his answers, from June 1778 to Sept. 1780. Interspersed among these are:-Extracts from the London Gazettes Extraordinary, 27 Mar. 1778, f 3;-..., 1778-1780 British Library
referencedIn VOL. I. 1759-1781. 1. Accounts of duels between servants of the East India Company; 1759, 1773. ff. 1, 149. 2. Diaries of public transactions; 2 Oct. 1760-3 Dec. 1767; partly in the handwriting of Warren Hastings, ff. 3, 15, 19, 28. 3. Correspondence..., 1759-1781 British Library
referencedIn Vol. vii. Dec. 1776-June, 1777.Nathaniel Middleton, Resident at Lucknow: Correspondence with W. Hastings: 1774-1798.William Palmer, Major, afterwards General: Correspondence with W. Hastings: 1777-1816.Sir John Mcpherson, Member of the Council, after... British Library
referencedIn Vol. vi. Jan.-Nov. 1776.Sir John Mcpherson, Member of the Council, afterwards Governor-General of India: Letters to W. Hastings: 1772-1786.Sir Elijah Impey, Chief Justice of Bengal: Correspondence with W. Hastings: 1775-1808.Thomas Goddard, General: ... British Library
referencedIn CORRESPONDENCE, of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, and other papers concerning his family or Drury Lane Theatre; 1770-1827. Sheridan's own letters, with those of his second wife and of his son Thomas, are mostly addressed to Richard Peake, treasurer of th..., 1770-1827 British Library
referencedIn (XX. ff. 254). 26 Mar.-15 June, 1781.includes:ff. 1, 65, 105 Captain Richard Johnstone: Letters to Sir R. M. Keith: 1781. ff. 3, 89, 111, 114, 143 William Fraser, Under Secretary of State: Letters to Sir R. M. Keith: 1774-1789. ff. 4, 49 John Boyd,... British Library
referencedIn Papers of Harry Verelst, East India Company servant, Bengal; Governor of Bengal 1767-69, 1761-1785 British Library
creatorOf Baldwin, George, 1743?-1826. Letter to Baron Northwick, 1803 Apr.[2?]. Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives
referencedIn Kate Baldwin Free Kindergarten (Savannah, Ga.). Kate Baldwin Free Kindergarten records, 1899-1938 [manuscript]. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Place Name Admin Code Country
China, Asia
Oudh, India
Murshidabad, Bengal
Buxar, Bihar
Chittagong, India
Allahabad, Bengal
London, England
Patna, India
Pondicherry, India
Bengal, India
Calcutta, India
China, Asia
Tippera, Bengal
Batavia, Java
Assam, India
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Birth 1744

Death 1826-02-19

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