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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  Hicky    
First Name(s)  James Augustus    
Year of Birth  ?    
Year of Death  ?    
Entry  Engaged in trade : experienced very heavy losses by sea, 1775-6, for which he was delivered to his creditors and sent to jail at Calcutta, Oct. 1776 : on coming out he established Hicky's Bengal Gazette, 1780 : at first dull and vulgar, it became full of personalities and scurrilous attacks, often directed at Warren Hastings and Sir E. Impey : it never attacked Sir P. Francis : its circulation through the General Post Office was stopped in Nov. 1780 : in June, 1781, Hicky was arrested and imprisoned under Impey's order at the suit of Hastings and fined : the paper continued, and Hicky was again fined : and in 1782, after his imprisonment for 19 months, the types were seized and the paper ceased : he is described as "" a worthless man"    
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