GB 0814 ZAAG - Forbes, James (1749-1819)

1 volume

GB 0814 ZAAG 1818 Collection (fonds) 1 volume Forbes , James , 1749-1819 , artist, author and traveller

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)

Bound manuscript by James Forbes entitled "Bills, Feathers, Eggs, etc., of various Birds in the Torrid Zones", 1818.

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Entry transcribed by Sarah Drewery, April 2011. Sources: Oxford DNB.
General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal Place and Corporate Names 1997.

April 2011 Organisms Ornithologists Vertebrates Zoology Ornithology Animals Birds Biologists Scientists Scientific personnel Forbes , James , 1749-1819 , artist, author and traveller Personnel People by occupation People

Bound manuscript by James Forbes entitled "Bills, Feathers, Eggs, etc., of various Birds in the Torrid Zones", 1818.

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Please contact the Archive for further information.

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English

General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal Place and Corporate Names 1997.

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