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Date transcribed2011-08-00
Transcribed byPeter Bailey
CommentNote that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name patterns established by Buckland in his original work.

Surname  Orme    
First Name(s)  Robert    
Birth Year  1728    
Death Year  1801    
Entry  Born at Anjengo, Dec. 25, 1728 : son of Surgeon Alexander Orme : educated at Harrow : went to Calcutta, 1742 : joined a mercantile house : became a writer in the E. I. Co.'s service, 1743 : returned to England in 1753 with Clive and became intimate with him : appointed by the Court of Directors to be a Member of Council at Madras, 1754-8, and was Commissary and Accountant-General : on his advice and nomination, Clive was sent up in command to Calcutta in 1756 : Orme was captured by the French on his way home and taken to the Mauritius, 1759 : reached London, 1760 : published A History of the Military Transactions of the British Nation in Indostan from the year 1745, in 1763 and 1778 : Historiographer to the E. I. Co., 1769-1801 : F.S.A., 1770 : published Historical Fragments of the Mogul Empire, of the Morattoes, and of the English Concerns in Indostan from the year 1659, in 1782 : died at Great Ealing, Jan. 13, 1801 : friend of Dr. Johnson : all books, printed tracts, manuscripts as left by him, presented to the E. I. Co. are now in the India Office Library.     
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