Barry Close
Sir Barry Close Baronet | |
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Tellicherry; ;Siege of Seringapatam (1792) |
Muslim grieving.[1]
Sir Barry Close, 1st Baronet (3 December 1756 – 12 April 1813) was an army general in the East India Company and a political officer.
Life
Barry Close was born at Elm Park in
Tellicherry against Hyder Ali and his General Sirdar Khan in 1780. Close's treatment of the sepoys and his leadership prevented his battalion from mutinying unlike several others. He gained a reputation as a linguist and chose to conduct all business with the sepoys in their own language.[2]
Close demonstrated his diplomatic talent when he served under
20th Madras native infantry. He intervened to solve a mutiny in Madras by British officers by talking to the sepoys in their language exhorting them not to follow the dissenting officers.[2]
Close was promoted to major-general in 1810 while he was on leave in Britain.
prince regent on 12 December 1812.[4] The title became extinct on Close's death in London on 12 April 1813, and he was buried at St Marylebone Parish Church, Middlesex.[2][3]
The town of
References
- ^ UCL Art Museum (2016). "A Brahmin and a Mohammedan in earnest converse for their country's good. Monument to Major General Sir Barry Close". UCL Museums Top Ten Objects: UCL Art Museum. Retrieved 16 June 2016.
- ^ doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/5702. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- ^ a b Philippart, John (1824). East India military calendar: containing the services of general and field officers of the Indian army. Volume 2. Parbury and Allen. pp. 256–262.
- ^ Courthope, William (1835). Synopsis of the extinct baronetage of England. London: J., G., and F. Rivington. p. 46.
- ^ Rice, BL (1897). Mysore. A gazetteer compiled for government. Volume 2. Archibald Constable and Company. p. 63.
External links
- Plaster copy of a memorial marble panel
- Arbuthnot, Alexander John (1887). . In Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 11. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
