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1798 In India
Events in the year 1798 in India. Incumbents * Sir Alured Clarke, Governor-General, 1798 * Marquess Wellesley, Governor-General, 1798–1805.''Everyman's Dictionary of Dates''; 6th ed. J. M. Dent, 1971; p. 264 Events * National income - 10,325 million * The Fourth Anglo-Mysore War begins. Births *10 November – Charles Phillip Brown, writer and colonial official (died 1884 Events January–March * January 4 – The Fabian Society is founded in London. * January 5 – Gilbert and Sullivan's ''Princess Ida'' premières at the Savoy Theatre, London. * January 18 – Dr. William Price atte ...). References Years of the 18th century in India {{india-hist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alured Clarke
Sir Alured Clarke (24 November 1744 – 16 September 1832) was a British Army officer. He took charge of all British troops in Georgia in May 1780 and was then deployed to Philadelphia to supervise the evacuation of British prisoners of war at the closing stages of the American Revolutionary War. He went on to be Governor of Jamaica and then lieutenant-governor of Lower Canada in which role he had responsibility for implementing the Constitutional Act 1791. He was then sent to India where he became Commander-in-Chief of the Madras Army, then briefly Governor-General of India and finally Commander-in-Chief of India during the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War. Military career Born the son of Charles Clarke (c.1702–1750) and Jane Clarke (née Mullins), Alured Clarke was educated at Eton College and was commissioned as an ensign in the 50th Regiment of Foot on 20 March 1759.Heathcote, p. 89 Later that year he served in Germany under the Marquess of Granby. Promoted to lieutenant in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley
Richard Colley Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley, (20 June 1760 – 26 September 1842) was an Anglo-Irish politician and colonial administrator. He was styled as Viscount Wellesley until 1781, when he succeeded his father as 2nd Earl of Mornington. In 1799, he was granted the Irish peerage title of Marquess Wellesley. He was also Lord Wellesley in the Peerage of Great Britain. He first made his name as fifth Governor-General of India between 1798 and 1805. He later served as Foreign Secretary in the British Cabinet and as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. In 1799, his forces invaded Mysore and defeated Tipu, the Sultan of Mysore, in a major battle. He also initiated the Second Anglo-Maratha War. He was the eldest son of The 1st Earl of Mornington, an Irish peer, and Anne, the eldest daughter of The 1st Viscount Dungannon. His younger brother, Arthur, was Field Marshal The 1st Duke of Wellington. Education and early career Wellesley was born in 1760 in Dangan Castle in Coun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fourth Anglo-Mysore War
The Fourth Anglo-Mysore War was a conflict in South India between the Kingdom of Mysore against the British East India Company and the Hyderabad Deccan in 1798–99. This was the final conflict of the four Anglo-Mysore Wars. The British captured the capital of Mysore. The ruler Tipu Sultan was killed in the battle. Britain took indirect control of Mysore, restoring the Wadiyar dynasty to the Mysore throne (with a British commissioner to advise him on all issues). Tipu Sultan's young heir, Fateh Ali, was sent into exile. The Kingdom of Mysore became a princely state in a subsidiary alliance with British India covering parts of present Kerala–Karnataka and ceded Coimbatore, Dakshina Kannada and Uttara Kannada to the British. Background Napoleon Bonaparte's landing in Ottoman Egypt in 1798 was intended to further the capture of the British possessions in India, and the Kingdom of Mysore was a key to that next step, as the ruler of Mysore, Tipu Sultan, sought France as an ally and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Phillip Brown
Charles Philip Brown (10 November 1798 – 12 December 1884) was a British official of the East India Company. He worked in what is now Andhra Pradesh, and became an important scholarly figure in Telugu language literature. Background Telugu literature was in a dormant phase in the 18th century, for a number of social and political reasons - a lack of creative Telugu poets, prevailing illiteracy and the decline of the Vijayanagara Empire as patrons of Telugu literature. Brown, as official in the region, collected and edited works. He believed he had saved the heritage of the Telugu language. In his own words, "Telugu literature was dying out; the flame was flickering in the socket. In 1825, I found Telugu literature dead. In 30 years I raised it to life". Janamaddi Hanumath Sastri, who has researched Brown's life, established a library in Kadapa in his memory. Biography Charles Brown was born in Calcutta on 10 November 1798. His father David Brown was a manager of an orpha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1884 In India
Events in the year 1884 in India. Incumbents * Empress of India – Queen Victoria * Viceroy of India – George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon * Viceroy of India – The Earl of Dufferin (from 13 December) Events * National income - 4,127 million Law *Explosives Act *Colonial Prisoners Removal Act (British statute) *Naval Discipline Act (British statute) *Criminal Lunatics Act (British statute) *Indian Marine Service Act (British statute) Births * 27 July - Sardar Bahadur Maharaj Jagat Singh Ji, Third Satguru of Radha Soami Satsang Beas (died 23 October 1951) * March – Jagadguru Swami Sri Bharati Krishna Tirthaji Maharaja, Hindu teacher (d.1960). * 7 November – Pandurang Sadashiv Khankhoje, revolutionary, scholar, agricultural scientist and historian (d.1967). * 22 November – Syed Sulaiman Nadvi, historian, biographer, littérateur and scholar of Islam (d.1953). Deaths * 12 December – Charles Phillip Brown, writer and colonial official (b.1798). India ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1798 In India
Events in the year 1798 in India. Incumbents * Sir Alured Clarke, Governor-General, 1798 * Marquess Wellesley, Governor-General, 1798–1805.''Everyman's Dictionary of Dates''; 6th ed. J. M. Dent, 1971; p. 264 Events * National income - 10,325 million * The Fourth Anglo-Mysore War begins. Births *10 November – Charles Phillip Brown, writer and colonial official (died 1884 Events January–March * January 4 – The Fabian Society is founded in London. * January 5 – Gilbert and Sullivan's ''Princess Ida'' premières at the Savoy Theatre, London. * January 18 – Dr. William Price atte ...). References Years of the 18th century in India {{india-hist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
