Quick Search
Advanced
Browse Records
Directories > Misc Directories
Share this page 
Go to record Dictionary of Indian Biography (Buckland) Dictionary of Indian Biography (Buckland)
 Dictionary of Indian Biography D to F

click to hide Data table details
Date transcribed2011-03-01
Transcribed byPeter Bailey
CommentNote that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name pattern established by Buckland in his original work.

Surname  Duncan    
First Name(s)  Jonathan    
Year of Birth  1756    
Year of Death  1811    
Entry  Governor : Indian Civilian : son of Alexander Duncan: born May 15, 1756 : arrived at Calcutta in the E.I. Co.'s service in 1772 : made Resident and Superintendent at Benares, 1788 : suppressed scandals in the administration and infanticide : was Governor of Bombay for the unprecedented time of 16 years from Dec. 27, 1795, to Aug. 11, 1811, dying at Bombay : he recognized a very large number of small chiefs as sovereign princes, a policy which was not elsewhere adopted : his time was synchronous with the later war against Tippoo, the Mahratta wars, and Baird's expedition to Egypt, the pacification of Gujarat and Kattiawar, in all of which he played a great part. He was buried at Bombay, and a monument was erected in his honour, with the inscription He was a good man and a just, and a scroll bearing the words "" Infanticide abolished in Benares and Kattiawar.""     
  << first    < previous   next >    last >>  

A List of eminent persons who served in British India, together with short biographical notes of each
click to expand  More details

© Families in British India Society. Unless stated otherwise, all rights including those in copyright in the content of this website are owned by or controlled for these purposes by the Families in British India Society.The content of this site may not be copied, reproduced, republished, downloaded, posted, broadcast or transmitted in any way without first obtaining written permission from the Families in British India Society or that of the copyright owner.
If you found this useful then why not join FIBIS to get all the benefits from membership and help this work to continue. You can now join on-line in the FIBIS Shop...
Frontis V4.20.04.06 Rev: 217. Web site engine code is Copyright © 2005-2020 Frontis. All Rights Reserved.
Decrease text size text size  Increase text size 		Powered by Frontis, The Archive Publishing System