Dictionary of Indian Biography/Barker, Sir Robert, Baronet
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BARKER, SIR ROBERT, BARONET (1729?–1789)
Served in the Camatic and Bengal from 1754: as a Captain accompanied Clive to Calcutta in 1757, commanding the Artillery at Chandernagore and Plassy: returned to Madras, 1758: served in 1792 in Colonel Draper's expedition from Madras to the Phillippine Islands: knighted in 1763: raised the 24th N.I. 1876: Brig-General, 1770, and provincial C. in C., Bengal, in 1773: in July, 1772, a treaty was signed in his presence between the Nawab Wazir of Oudh and the Rohillas against the Mahrattas: after a quarrel with Warren Hastings he left India: became M.P. for Wallingford: Baronet, 1781: died Sep. 14, 1789.