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Date transcribed2011-05-01
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  Kirkpatrick    
First Name(s)  James Achilles    
Year of Birth  1764    
Year of Death  1805    
Entry  Lt-Colonel : son of Colonel James Kirkpatrick, and brother of William Kirkpatrick {q.v.) : born Aug. 1764 : educated in France and at Eton : joined the E. I. Co.'s Madras Army in 1779-80 : in the Mysore war, 1791-2 : in charge df garrison at Vizianagram, 1793 : Assistant to his brother William, Resident at Hyderabad, in 1795 : succeeded him in 1797: negotiated the several treaties of 1798, 1799, 1800, 1802, 1803, 1804 on behalf of the Governor-General with the Nizam of Hyderabad, for various objects, the suppression of French influence, etc., gaining the full confidence of the Marquess Wellesley : brought the Nizam's contingent of 60,000 men into the field against Tippoo, 1799 : died, while Resident at Hyderabad, on a visit to Calcutta, on Oct. 15, 1805.     
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