The Oriental club and Hanover Square . s in India, and he received a brevetfrom His Majesty, as already stated in an earlier part of thishistory. The operations under his command were chieflyconducted against the French on the coast of Coromandel,and ultimately led to the successful issue of the war. Withthe exception of a few months leave of absence he heldthe appointment of Commander-in-Chief in India for twentyyears, and finally retired from the service in 1766, on anannual pension of 600/. It is said that his circumstanceswere very limited, and that Clive, who had served under himas a lieu
The Oriental club and Hanover Square . s in India, and he received a brevetfrom His Majesty, as already stated in an earlier part of thishistory. The operations under his command were chieflyconducted against the French on the coast of Coromandel,and ultimately led to the successful issue of the war. Withthe exception of a few months leave of absence he heldthe appointment of Commander-in-Chief in India for twentyyears, and finally retired from the service in 1766, on anannual pension of 600/. It is said that his circumstanceswere very limited, and that Clive, who had served under himas a lieutenant of infantry, generously came to his died in Bruton Street in 1775, shortly after the death ofhis friend. His bust, by Taylor, is in Westminster Abbey ;and in a corridor of the India Office is a somewhat fantasticmarble statue of the old soldier, represented bareheaded andin Koman costume, holding a short sword in his right hand,which formerly stood in the General Court of the East IndiaHouse, in Leadenhall //////?/? . /i /ii /?>// . J/11 iii/r /? ^/a/r/ijir< Our Portraits 241 Malcolm, Major-Genebal Sir John, In otherparts of this work I have referred at some length to ourFounder, and will now confine myself to a brief descriptionof our portrait by S. Lane, premising, however, that there isin existence an earlier portrait of him by George Hayter,which was probably painted from life, while ours, as alreadystated, was produced after his death. I have already pointedout that the Malcolm stock was good, and that the brotherswere a fine stalwart set of men, and our life-size full-lengthportrait of Sir John depicts him as a fine specimen of a man,and a good-looking one too. The head is slightly inclined tohis left, but we have nearly his full face, with well-cut nose,high forehead, kindly expression in the eyes, just a littlewhisker, and brownish hair. He wears a white collar withblack stock, and his full-dress uniform of scarlet, with epaule
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