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Dictionary of Indian Biography (Buckland) |
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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 | Conran | | First Name(s) | Henry | | Year of Birth | 1738 | | Year of Death | 1810 | | Entry | Major : served in the American war, 1755-6 : under Wolfe, at Quebec, in 1759 : returned to England and retired as Major about 1780 : went to India by way of Aleppo and the desert with a packet from the Court of Directors to the Bengal Government : appointed to the Staff of Warren Hastings, on whose retirement, in 1785, Conran remained in Calcutta and died there, May 15, 1810. |
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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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