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Military Officer in the Deccan and Southern Maratha Country’. Greatly disliked the Kirkpatrick brothers. Later famous as the Duke of Wellington.
    Henry Wellesley (1773-1847): Assistant to his brother the Governor General, and Governor of the Ceded Districts of Avadh.
The Palmers
    General William Palmer (d.1814): Friend of Warren Hastings and James Achilles Kirkpatrick, and Resident at Poona until he was sacked by Wellesley. Married Fyze Baksh Begum, a begum of Oudh. Father of William, John and Hastings.
    Fyze Baksh, Begum Palmer (aka Sahib Begum, c.1760-1820): Daughter of‘a Persian Colonel of Cavalry’ in the service of the Nawabs of Oudh. Her sister Nur Begum was married to General Benoît de Boigne. Fyze married General Palmer and had four sons and two daughters by him, including William Palmer the banker, whom she lived with in Hyderabad after the General’s death. Best friend of Khair un-Nissa: when the latter died, she locked herself up for a month, saying ‘she had lost the only real friend she ever had’.
    John Palmer (1767-1836): ‘The Prince of Merchants’. General Palmer’s son by his first wife Sarah Hazell.
    Captain William Palmer (1780-1867): Son of General Palmer by Fyze Palmer. Initially James Kirkpatrick found him a job in the Nizam’s service, where he wrote a letter to Wellesley criticising the Governor General’s treatment of James under the nom de plume Philothetes. William subsequently became a powerful banker in Hyderabad, before suffering a catastrophic bankruptcy.
The Russells
    Sir Henry Russell (1751-1836): Chief Justice of Bengal and father of Henry and Charles.
    Henry Russell (1783-1852): Kirkpatrick’s Private Secretary and assistant. Later a lover of the Begum.
    Charles Russell: Commander of the Resident’s bodyguard and obedient younger brother to Henry.
The Residency Staff
    Captain William Hemming: Commander of the Resident’s bodyguard. Named by Henry Russell as the principal enemy of James in the Residency.
    Samuel Russell: ‘The Engineer’. Son of Academician John Russell, and no relation to Henry and Charles. Briefly the Nizam’s engineer, he helped James finish the Residency.
    Thomas Sydenham: Secretary to the Resident. James came to distrust him, and called him ‘Pontifex Maximus’. On James’s death he became Resident, attempting to weed out James’s ‘Mughalisation’ of the Residency, and sacking many of James’s key staff.
    Munshi Aziz Ullah, Munshi Aman Ullah: Two highly educated brothers from Delhi who became James’s trusted munshis.
    Dr George Ure: Surgeon to the Residency.
    Mrs Ure: Wife of Dr Ure and a fluent Urdu speaker, she was a vast woman with an apparently unquenchable appetite. She accompanied James’s children to England in 1805.
The Subsidiary Force
    Lieutenant Colonel James Dalrymple (1757-1800): Commander of the Subsidiary Force.
    Lieutenant Colonel Samuel Dalrymple: Cousin of James Dalrymple and friend of Henry Russell. Was on board ship with James Kirkpatrick on his final journey. His wife Margaret was generally regarded as ‘odious’.
    Dr Alexander Kennedy: The Subsidiary Force doctor.
Other Miscellaneous British
    Edward, Lord Clive (1754-1839): Son of Robert Clive (‘Clive of India’), he was the notably unintelligent Governor of Madras.
    Mountstuart Elphinstone (1779-1859): Traveller and East India Company civil servant who rose to be Governor of Bombay; visited Hyderabad with Edward Strachey in August/September 1801 en route to a position in Pune.
    Edward Strachey (1774-1832): Traveller and civil servant; visited Hyderabad with Mountstuart Elphinstone in August/September 1801 en route to a position in Pune. In 1808 he married Julia, the youngest and prettiest daughter of William Kirkpatrick.

2 . THE FRENCH
    Michel Joachim Marie Raymond (1755-98): Mercenary commander of the French Battalion in Hyderabad.
    Jean-Pierre Piron: Raymond’s successor.

3 . THE HYDERABADIS
The Nizam’s Family
    Nawab Mir Nizam Ali Khan, Asaf Jah II