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Forbes , James , 1749-1819 , artist, author and traveller
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Born, 8 May 1749, sailed in March 1765 for Bombay as an East India Company writer; appointed member of council at Anjengo, 1772; officiated as chaplain, 1775, later secretary, attached to British forces sent to assist Raghunath Rao in the Maratha civil wars; embarked for England, 1 December 1775; returned to India, 1777; returned to England, 1784; elected to the Society of Antiquaries, 1801; fellow of the Royal Society, 1803; died, 1819.
Publications: Oriental Memoirs Reflections on the Character of the Hindoos (1810)
Letters from France (2 vols., 1806)