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PERREAU, ROBERT SAMUEL, son of Robert Britton Perreau, Golden Square, Westminster, apothecary, and Henrietta --- (IGI); b. 4 Dec 1760; adm. 14 Jan 1771; left Easter 1775; Writer, EICS Bengal 2 Jan 1777; stationed at Bencoolen to c. 1780, when he established himself as a merchant and agent at Calcutta; present at OWW dinner at Calcutta 1783 (Hickey, Memoirs, iii, 245-6); Secretary to Calcutta Insurance Co. 1790, member of its committee 1793-9; absconded from Calcutta to Bencoolen; Malay Translator, Sumatra 1808; First Assistant to Resident Magistrate and Superintendent, Free Gardens, Bencoolen 1810; one of donors of Warren Hastings Cup; m. 1st, at Calcutta, 14 Jan 1786 Mary, dau. of George Cooper, Surgeon EICS [Presidency ?]; m. 2nd, 23 May 1803 Elizabeth, widow of John Braham, EICS Fort Marlborough, Resident at Manna; d. at Bencoolen, Sumatra 22 May 1811.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.