Alexander Beatson
Officer in the East India Company's service, governor of St. Helena, and an experimental agriculturist · Scientists · Lived 1759 to 1830 · aged 70
Alexander Beatson was a Madras Army officer and colonial administrator. He was a surveyor and engineer in India, rising to Surveyor General in the Madras Presidency before being posted as a governor of St. Helena.
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He wrote about the English and the history of the war against Tipu Sultan and on observations made during his tenure on St. Helena.
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Category
Scientists
Type
Scientist
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1759 to 1830 · aged 70
