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Dictionary of Indian Biography G to I
Date transcribed | 2011-04-00 | Transcribed by | Peter Bailey | Comment | Note that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name pattern established by Buckland in his original work. |
| Surnames | Gordon | | First Name(s) | Peter | | Year of Birth | ? | | Year of Death | ? | | Entry | Merchant, missionary, traveller : his father was domiciled in Calcutta as an owner and commander of the Wellesley merchantman, and Commodore of the expedition to Egypt : Peter was captured by the French in 1809, but escaped : entered, 1810, into the country service in India : served the E.I. Co. occasionally to 1824 : obtained valuable contracts from the E.I. Co. : published, 1816, a book about his adventures : made two voyages from Calcutta to Okhotsk in a schooner of 65 tons, 1817-8 : travelled across Russia to Persia, 1820 : arrested in 1827 by orders of the Assistant Collector of Madura : imprisoned two months : wrote various works about his career, e.g. on his imprisonment and escape, 1816 : on his tour through Persia, 1820 : on India, on the E.I. Co. : Christian Researches in Southern India, 1834 : and about China. |
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A List of eminent persons who served in British India, together with short biographical notes of each
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