Dictionary of Indian Biography/Buchan, George
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BUCHAN, GEORGE ( ? - ? )
I.C.S.: appointed a writer on the Madras Establishment, Aug. 1792: Assistant under the Secretary in the Military, PoHtical and Scout Department, and French Translator, 1794: also for supplying "beetle," tobacco, and "gangee" in 1795: Paymaster to the Malacca expedition, 1796: sub-Secretary in the above Department, 1799: Secretary in the Public and Commercial Department, 1801; in the Military Department, 1801: Chief Secretary, 1803: Private Secretary to Government, 1809: went home, 1810: "out of the service," 1814.