Captain Henry Harkness, East India Company, RAS Secretary

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Captain Henry Harkness, East India Company, RAS Secretary

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        Henry Harkness was born on 7 October 1787 in Lympstone, Devon. He was a British Colonial Officer in South India. He became a Captain in 1826 when he commanded the escort of Bishop Heber until Heber’s death in 1826. He collaborated with Col. Colin MacKenzie in editing Ram Raz’s posthumous, 'Architecture of the Hindus' (L. 1834) and worked as the secretary of College of Fort St. George until his retirement on 7 July 1834. Once back in the U.K., He was Secretary of the RAS from 1834 to 1837. He died on 17 August 1838.

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