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 Death Announcements 1731-1831

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Surname  Barker    
First names  Rob.    
Rank/ occupation  Commander in Chief & Baronet    
Unit  Bengal    
Death date  14 Sep 1789    
Place of death  Busbridge    
Source  Gentleman's Magazine    
Date  Oct 1789    
Page number  956    
Detail  At his seat in Busbridge, Surrey, Sir Rob. Barker, bart. many years commander in chief of the East India Company's forces in Bengal, and no less distinguished in philosophy than in war. He communicated to the Royal Society, of which he was a member, thermometrical observations, at Allahabad, in the East Indies, 1767, and in a voyage from Madras to England, 1774 (Phil. Trans. vol. LXV p.202); the process of making ice in the East Indies (ibid 252); account of the observatory of the Bramins at Benares (LXVII. 598); of the paintings by the late Tilly Kettle, at his seat (see our vol. LVI. p.1145).    
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