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| Date transcribed | 2011-01-01 | | Transcribed by | Peter Bailey | | Comment | Note that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name pattern established by Buckland in his original work. |
| | Surname | Baillie | | | First Name(s) | John | | | Year of Birth | 1772 | | | Year of Death | 1833 | | | Entry | Lt-Colonel : younger son of George Baillie, of Leys Castle, Inverness : entered the service of the E.I. Co. in 1791 : took part in the military operations of the Mahratta war, 1803 : but his principal services in India were political : as Political Agent, 1803-7, he succeeded, under great difficulties, in establishing British authority in Bundelkund, and in transferring to the Company a large and valuable territory : for his services, he was appointed Resident at Lucknow, 1807-15. he established the celebrated Guard or Gate, which still bears his name at Lucknow : after leaving India, he was appointed, 1823, a Director: of the E.I. Co. : M.P. for Hendon in 1820 : and in 1830 for the Burghs of Inverness, in which town is his portrait by Raeburn : died in London, April 20, 1833. From the commencement of his career, Baillie was a devoted student of Oriental languages, and was the first Professor of Arabic and Persian, when the College of Fort William was instituted in 1801 : published several important works, and made a large and choice collection of oriental works, at his house in Inverness, which was presented by his heirs to the University of Edinburgh. A Digest of Mohummudan Law, which he left unfinished, was completed and greatly enlarged by his son, Neil B. E. Baillie, (1799-1883), an Indian Jurist of some eminence : it is still a standard work of reference. |
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