Robert Orme

Robert Orme has an entry in the ODNB as 'historian of India and East India Company servant.' He was party to a deed of 1769 concerning property in Grenada between on the one hand a group of speculative financiers led by Lauchlin Macleane (q.v.) and on the other the London merchants Simond and Hankey. He was a trustee and appears to have been active in that capacity in the early 1770s: there are also records of his management of estates in Grenada 1795-1799 in the Archives at Yale.

1. In the will of Robert Orme of Great Ealing Middlesex proved 28/04/1801 he was concerned first of all to prevent the descent of the Grenada slave-property to his heirs (Simond and Hankey having died) by leaving it to new trustees, John Hibberts [sic] of the East India Co. and John Peter Hankey (q.v.). He left £500 to his great-nephew Robert Orme Smith, and £1000 each to his executors John Roberts and Mrs Mary Dixon, the latter then living with him.

Tammita-Delgoda, SinhaRaja. "Orme, Robert (1728–1801), historian of India and East India Company servant." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. 23 Sep. 2004; Accessed 29 Apr. 2020. https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-20833; Asokha SinhaRaja Tammita-Delgoda, '''NABOB, HISTORIAN AND ORIENTALIST" The Life and Writings of Robert Orme (1728-1801)', unpublished PhD Thesis, King's College London (n.d.) https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/files/2926894/DX204899.pdf pp. 113-115 [accessed 29/04/2020]; British Caribbean Documents. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/11/archival_objects/2192375 Accessed April 29, 2020.

1. PROB 11/1356/306.