| Surname | Colvin |
| First Name(s) | Alexander John |
| Page No | 69 |
| Date of Rank as Writer | 1805, July 29 |
| Execution of Covenant | 1805 |
| Notification of appointment from the Honorable the Court of Directors | 1805,Feb 6 |
| Arrived in India | 1805, Aug 10 |
| Date 5 | 1808, Mar 11: Assistant to the Collector of Benares. |
| Date 6 | 1809, Dec 15: Assistant to the Register and Assistant to the Magistrate of Patna. |
| Date 7 | 1810, Aug 27: Officiating Register and Assistant to the Magistrate of Patna. |
| Date 8 | 1810, Nov 24: Register of the Civil Court and Assistant to the Magistrate of Patna. |
| Date 9 | 1812, Sept 26: Officiating Collector of Customs at Patna. |
| Date 10 | 1815, Jan 24: Additional Register of Cuttack and Joint-Magistrate of Balasore. |
| Date 11 | 1816, May 21: Officiating Collector of Customs at Balasore. |
| Date 12 | 1816, Dec 27: Assistant to the Superintendent of Police, Lower Provinces. |
| Date 13 | 1817, July 4: Register and Joint-Magistrate of the Suburbs of Calcutta. |
| Date 14 | 1817, Oct 28 and 1818, Jan 27: Officiating Judge and Mgistrate of 24-Pergunnahs. |
| Date 15 | 1818, Sept 25: Officiating Judge and Magistrate of Jungle Mehals. |
| Date 16 | 1818, Oct 23: Judge and Miagistrate of Jungle Mehals. |
| Date 17 | 1819, Nov 26: Proceeded to Tamar in Ramghur with the powers of Joint-Magistrate. |
| Date 18 | 1820,Aug 25: Magistrate of Calcutta. |
| Date 19 | 1821, April 13: Judge and Magistrate of Allahabad, and Officiating Jude and Magistrate of Jungle Mehals. |
| Date 20 | 1827, Mar 1: Acting Member of the Mofussil Special Comission under Section I of 1821. |
| Date 21 | 1818, Jan 24: Member of the Mofussil Special Commission. |
| Date 22 | 1829, Jan 15: Proceeded to Europe on Furlough. |
| Date 23 | 1831, Nov 7: Returned to India. |
| Date 24 | 1831, Dec 13: Judge of the Sudder Dewanny and Nizamut Adawlut, at Allahabad. |
| Date 25 | Retired on Annnuity, January 18th, 1839. |