Dictionary of Indian Biography/Conran, Henry

by Charles Edward Buckland

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CONRAN, HENRY (1738–1810)

Major : served in the American war, 1755–6 : under Wolfe, at Quebec, in 1759 : returned to England and retired as Major about 1780 : went to India by way of Aleppo and the desert with a packet from the Court of Directors to the Bengal Government : appointed to the Staff of Warren Hastings, on whose retirement, in 1785, Conran remained in Calcutta and died there. May 15, 1810.