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 Dictionary of Indian Biography G to I

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Date transcribed2011-04-00
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.

Surnames  Gordon    
First Name(s)  Peter    
Year of Birth  ?    
Year of Death  ?    
Entry  Merchant, missionary, traveller : his father was domiciled in Calcutta as an owner and commander of the Wellesley merchantman, and Commodore of the expedition to Egypt : Peter was captured by the French in 1809, but escaped : entered, 1810, into the country service in India : served the E.I. Co. occasionally to 1824 : obtained valuable contracts from the E.I. Co. : published, 1816, a book about his adventures : made two voyages from Calcutta to Okhotsk in a schooner of 65 tons, 1817-8 : travelled across Russia to Persia, 1820 : arrested in 1827 by orders of the Assistant Collector of Madura : imprisoned two months : wrote various works about his career, e.g. on his imprisonment and escape, 1816 : on his tour through Persia, 1820 : on India, on the E.I. Co. : Christian Researches in Southern India, 1834 : and about China.     
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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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