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Date transcribed	2011-08-00
Transcribed by	Peter Bailey
Comment	Note that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name patterns established by Buckland in his original work.

	Surname	Ricketts
	First Name(s)	John William
	Birth Year	1791
	Death Year	1835
	Entry	Son of Ensign John Ricketts, of the Bengal Engineers (killed at Seringapatam, 1792) ; educated at the Military Orphanage at Kidderpur. Calcutta ; went to Bencoolen in the E. I. Co.'s service ; afterwards employed in a Government office in Calcutta. In 1823 he founded the Doveton College, in Calcutta, for the education of East Indians. In 1829-30 he was deputed to England, on behalf of the East Indians, to petition Parliament for the redress of their grievances : was examined before Select Committees of both Houses on Indian affairs. He was finally Sub-Judge of Gaya, and died there, July 28, 1835. For his labours for the community, he was called the East Indian Patriot.

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