George Dick (Governor of Bombay)
George Dick (1739-9 May 1818, Byculla) was the Governor of Bombay from 26 November 1792 to 9 November 1795.
Dick became a writer for the East India Company in 1759. At the time of his death he "had never been out of Bombay, except for an occasional trip to , for nearly sixty years."[1] There is a tablet to his memory in St. Thomas Cathedral, Mumbai.
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- ^ James Douglas, Glimpses of Old Bombay and Western India, with other papers, 1900
- "Previous Governors List". Governor of Maharashtra. Archived from the original on 6 February 2009. Retrieved 23 December 2008.
- "Colonial administrators and post-independence leaders in India (1616–2000)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- Great Britain India Office (1819). The India List and India Office List. I. Harrison. pp. 125–7. Retrieved 9 October 2008.
- Greater Bombay District Gazetteer. Maharashtra State Gazetteers. I. Government of Maharashtra. 1986. Retrieved 13 August 2008.
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