Baillie, John 1772-1833

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1790-1818 servant of the East India Company; 1791 arrived in India; 1793 ensign; 1794 lieutenant; 1800-1807 professor of Arabic and Persian languages and of Islamic law, Fort William College; 1803 captain; 1803 served in the Second Anglo-Maratha War at the siege of Agra; 1803 political agent, Bundelkhand; 1807-1815 resident at Lucknow; 1815 lieutenant-colonel, 4th native infantry; 1820-1831 Member of Parliament, Hedon; 1823 director, East India Company; 1832-1833 Member of Parliament, burghs of Inverness.

Epithet: army officer in India, orientalist and politician

British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001394.0x000100

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creatorOf	Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811. Autograph letter signed : [London], to Baillie, 1791 July 4.	Pierpont Morgan Library.
referencedIn	Papers of Sir George Barlow, East India Company servant, Bengal from 1778; Governor-General of Bengal 1805-07; Governor of Madras 1807-13; and papers of his children, 1781-1860	British Library
referencedIn	Letter from Mr. (afterwards Sir Gore) Ouseley to Lord Wellesley, respecting Rajah Beja Singh, 2 Sept. 1800 ;-Abstract statement of the revenue in Hindostan ceded by the Treaty of Surje Angengaum [Dec. 1803];-Memoranda relative to the examination of t...	British Library
referencedIn	MEMOIR on the situation of Bundlecund in 1803 (imperf.) ;-Letters to Lt. Col. P. Powell, Capt. John Baillie, Lt. Col. Martindell, and W. H. Brooke, Chief Commissioner for the Affairs of Bundlecund, from N. B. Edmonstone and J. Lumsden, Secretaries to...	British Library

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	Nepal, Asia
	India, Asia
	India, Asia
	India, Asia
	Lucknow, India

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