Thomas William Baillie (abt. 1787)

Born about May 1787 in Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, India [uncertain]

Husband of Elizabeth May (Lewis) Baillie — married 14 Mar 1805 in Fort Marlborough, Bencoolen, Sumatra

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Biography

Thomas was born about 1788.

In 1803 he was listed as an assistant to the secretary's office in a list of monthly writers of the British East India Company at Fort Marlborough, Bencoolen, Sumatra.^[1]

At the time of his marriage in 1805 he was working as a Monthly Writer for the East India Company at Fort Marlborough, Bencoolah, Sumatra.[1]

In 1818 he was left with a contingent of six soldiers at Samanka Bay in Southern Sumatra to hold the line against the Dutch, per the order of Stamford Raffles, the Lieutenant Governor of Bencoolen.^[2][3] Baillie stood his ground, refusing to lower the flag to the Dutch,^[4] although eventually he backed down when higher ups ordered Raffles to stand down from his plot to gain a British anchorage in the Sunda Strait.^[5][6]

Sources

1. ↑ https://sites.google.com/site/sumatraswestkust/bencoolen-1/bencoolen-2
2. ↑ https://www.jstor.org/stable/20067301
3. ↑ https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/20067301.pdf?refreqid=excelsior%3A78d8464178fad4867f92becd56a87070&ab_segments=&origin=&initiator=&acceptTC=1
4. ↑ https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/20067301.pdf?refreqid=excelsior%3A78d8464178fad4867f92becd56a87070&ab_segments=&origin=&initiator=&acceptTC=1
5. ↑ https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/20067301.pdf?refreqid=excelsior%3A78d8464178fad4867f92becd56a87070&ab_segments=&origin=&initiator=&acceptTC=1
6. ↑ https://www.jstor.org/stable/20067301

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