NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Palk, Robert, 1717-1798 NRA: Palk Sir Robert (1717-1798) Knight Governor of Madras DNB: Palk, Sir Robert, first baronet (1717-1798), Church of England clergyman and administrator in India LBT ID: RoPalk1798 VIAF ID: 96858273 LOC ID: no2009127153 | B/BAP: 1717-12 DIED: 1798-04-29 |
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Educated at Wadham College, Oxford, he was chaplain with the East India Company and
governor of Madras and afterwards MP for Ashburton. | |