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- "William entered the East India Company's Military Service, and soondistinguished himself by his professional talents and literaryacquirements. He published a Vocabulary, Persian, Arabic, and English,1785; selected Letters of Tippoo Sultaun, 1811; and in the same year 'AnAccount of the Kingdom of Nepaul, being the substance of Observationsmade during a Mission to that Country in the year 1793,' the preface ofwhich commences, 'No Englishman had hitherto passed beyond the range oflofty mountains, which separates the secluded valley of Nepaul from thenorth-eastern parts of Bengal.' The Court of Nepaul, alarmed by aninvasion from China, implored assistance from the Bengal Government, whosent Colonel Kirkpatrick (assisted by three other officers and a surgeon)as Envoy to the Court. His report was written for Government, and not forpublication; and it was not till several years after it was written,that, on his return to England, he was reluctantly induced to publish thework, under the patronage of the Court of Directors. He had alreadydistinguished himself when Lord Wellesley went out as Governor in 1798."
"Lord Wellesley offered in the handsomest terms to apply on his behalffor the English honours, which however he courteously declined. Thecorrespondence is still preserved by the family. He died Major-General,in August, 1812, in his 58th year, leaving four daughters. Clementina,married to Admiral Sir John Louis, Baronet; Barbara, married CharlesBuller, M.P., father of the late Charles Buller, Member for Liskeard, andof Sir Arthur Buller, Judge of the Supreme Court at Calcutta; Julia,married to Edward Strachey, late father of the present Sir EdwardStrachey, Baronet; and Eliza, who died unmarried."
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