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Dictionary of Indian Biography A to C
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 | Barker | | First Name(s) | Sir Robert | | Titles | Baronet | | Year of Birth | 1729? | | Year of Death | 1789 | | Entry | Served in the Carnatic and Bengal from 1754 : as a Captain accompanied Clive to Calcutta in 1757, commanding the Artillery at Chandernagore and Plassy : returned to Madras, 1758 : served in 1792 in Colonel Draper's expedition from Madras to the Phillippine Islands : knighted in 1763 : raised the 24th N.I. 1876 : Brig- General, 1770, and provincial C. in C, Bengal, in 1773 : in July, 1772, a treaty was signed in his presence between the Nawab Wazir of Oudh and the Rohillas against the Mahrattas : after a quarrel with Warren Hastings he left India : became M.P. for Wallingford : Baronet, 1781 : died Sep. 14, 1789. |
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A List of eminent persons who served in British India, together with short biographical notes of each
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