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ORME, ROBERT (1728-1801)

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ORME, See also:ROBERT (1728-1801) , See also:English historian of See also:India, was See also:born at Anjengo on the See also:Malabar See also:coast on the 25th of See also:December 1728, the son of a surgeon in the See also:Company's service. Educated at See also:Harrow, he was appointed to a writership in See also:Bengal in 1743. He returned to See also:England in 1753 in the same See also:ship with See also:Clive, with whom he formed a See also:close friendship. From 1754 to 1758 he was a member of See also:council at See also:Madras, in which capacity he largely influenced the sending of Clive to See also:Calcutta to avenge the See also:catastrophe of the See also:Black Hole. His See also:great See also:work—A See also:History of the Military Transactions of the See also:British Nation in Indostan from 1745—was published in three volumes in 1763 and 1778 (Madras reprint, 186r-1862). This was followed by a See also:volume of See also:Historical Fragments (1781), dealing with an earlier See also:period. In 1769 he was appointed historiographer to the See also:East India Company. He died at See also:Ealing on the 13th of See also:January 18o1. His valuable collections of See also:MSS. are in the India See also:Office library. The characteristics of his work, of which the See also:influence is admirably shown in See also:Thackeray's The Newcomes, are thus described by See also:Macaulay: " Orme, inferior to no English historian in See also:style and See also:power of See also:painting, is See also:minute even to tediousness. In one volume he allots, on an See also:average, a closely printed See also:quarto See also:page to the events of every See also:forty-eight See also:hours. The consequence is that his narrative, though one of the most See also:authentic and one of the most finely written in our See also:language, has never been very popular, and is now scarcely ever read." Not a few of the most picturesque passages in Macaulay's own See also:Essay on Clive are borrowed from Orme.

(J. S.

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