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 Dictionary of Indian Biography D to F

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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  Forrest    
First Name(s)  Thomas    
Year of Birth  1729    
Year of Death  1802 ?    
Entry  Midshipman, R.N., in 1745 : in the E.I. Co.'s service after 1748 : commanded a ship from 1762 : made fifteen voyages from India to the East, and four from England to India : he formed a settlement in 1770 at Balambangan, and in 1774-6 explored in New Guinea, the Sulu Archipelago, the Moluccas, etc., and wrote an account of his voyages : employed by Warren Hastings to obtain news of the French fleet which had escaped the English ships; he found it at Achin, and the information was very valuable. He made a voyage ""from Bengal to Quedah"" in 1783, and a voyage "" from Calcutta to the Mergui Archipelago,"" 1790, discovering the Forrest Strait : besides other papers, he wrote a Treatise on the Monsoons in East India, 1782 : died about 1802.     
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