Robert Orme
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Robert Orme (1728 - 1801), historian, son of a British East India Company Physician and Surgeon, Dr. Alexander Orme, was born at Anjenjo, near Travancore on 25 December 1728, and after being educated at Harrow, entered the service of the British East India Company as a writer in Bengal in 1743. He returned to England in 1753, and was regarded as an authority on India.
He was appointed as a Member of the Council at Fort St. George, Madras between 1754 and 1758, and in that capacity was instrumental in the sending of a young Robert Clive as the head of a military expedition in 1757 to Calcutta to avenge the alleged Black Hole incident of 1756.
He wrote his History of the Military Transactions of the British Nation in Indostan from 1745 (1763-78), a well-written and accurate work, showing great research.
He also published Historical Fragments of the Mogul Empire, the Morattoes and English Concerns in Indostan from 1659 (1782). His collections relating to India are preserved at the India Office.
He returned to England in 1760, and was appointed as Historiographer to the British East India Company in 1769.
He died at Ealing on 13 January 1801.
This article incorporates public domain text from: Cousin, John William (1910). A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature. London, J.M. Dent & sons; New York, E.P. Dutton.
