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- MY DEAR SIR THOMAS,
My time since my return to town has been so entirely devoted toIndian despatches, that I have not yet found leisure to pay or receivepersonal visits. Even this on paper to you is amongst my first, and I begyou will accept it as expressive of that esteem and respect, which I cannever separate from my idea of your character.
The writer of this letter, Colonel James Kirkpatrick, son of JamesKirkpatrick, M.D., was an officer of the East India Company's MadrasEstablishment. He published in 1769 a pamphlet on the use of LightTroops, of which the Monthly Review of that date observes, 'The proposalappears important and very judiciously planned. The author is anexperienced Commander of Horse.' He married Katherine, daughter of AndrewMunro, 1762, at Madras. He commanded the forces at Fort Marlborough,Sumatra, 1777. He returned home about 1779, and died at his seat,Hollydale, Kent, in 1818, in his 89th year. His father, JamesKirkpatrick, M.D., the author of some poetical and medical works, died in1770, in his 69th year. In the Middlesex Journal of that day he is thusnoticed, 'Dr. Kirkpatrick, a gentleman who has left behind many proofs ofa fine imagination in his poetical, and of great genius and learning inhis physical productions.'
Colonel James Kirkpatrick left three sons, William, George, andJames Achilles.
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