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Major-general Sir John Malcolm (1769-1833) served as the East India Company’s Governor of Bombay from 1827 to 1830. Born in Dumfriesshire, he went out to India in 1783 as a cadet, and served alongside Sir Arthur Wellesley (later Duke of Wellington) in the Anglo-Maratha war of 1803-05, the two men becoming fast friends. He was also entrusted with a series of diplomatic missions to Iran, and subsequently wrote a pioneering history of the country. Frustrated with lack of promotion, in 1822 he settled down in England to write on Iran and India, but in 1827 returned to India as Governor of Bombay. He retired in 1830, and sat as MP for Launceston until his death three years later. Monuments to him stand in Westminster Abbey and Bombay’s Town Hall.
