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Cairncross, James (1785–1806), civil servant in India
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1785–1806
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Born in London, 10 Nov. 1785.
Baptised at St Nicholas Olave, London, 9 Dec. 1785.
Admitted as a pensioner at Trinity College, Cambridge, 24 Oct. 1803.
Date of rank as writer to the East India Company, and execution of covenant, 27 Sept. 1804.
Notification of appointment from the Court of Directors of the East India Company, 6 Feb. 1805.
Arrived in India, 21 Apr. 1805
Died at Calcutta, India, 1 Jan. 1806.
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General Register of the East India Company's Civil Servants of the Bengal Establishment from 1790 to 1842 (1844), p. 50