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| Date transcribed | 2000-00-00 | | Transcribed by | Steve van Dulken |
| | Surname | Duncan | | | First names | Alexander | | | Rank/ occupation | Collector | | | Unit | Berrares | | | Death date | 21 May 1796 | | | Place of death | Passage to Bombay on EICS Earl Howe  | | | Source | Gentleman's Magazine | | | Date | Aug 1797 | | | Page number | 711 | | | Detail | Alexander Duncan, esq. brother to the gentleman who is now governor of Bombay, and in consequence of whose relinquishment of the residency of Bellares, in August, 1795, his late brother succeeded to the collection of the large land revenue and custom house duties derivable from that fairest portion of the British territories in India; to which united trusts he was, at the early age of 21, and, although wanting one year of the prescribed rank, from length of service in the East-India Company's employ, promoted by the Government-General of India, from a sense that his qualifications, from official experience and personal character, outweighed this degree of informality. His disposition endeared him to the native Indians, as well as to the British, of the society at Berrares that he had lived in since his arrival in India in 1790; and from which, and the hopes of his friends, he was prematurely severed by the progress of a consumption on-board the Earl Howe Indiaman, on a voyage undertaken for the recovery of his health to Bombay, to rejoin his brother. |
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