John MalcolmMajor-General Sir John Malcolm GCB, KLS was a Scottish soldier, diplomat, East India Company administrator, statesman, and historian who died on May 30, 1833. Sir John Malcolm was born in 1769 in Eskdale, Scotland, to George Malcolm, an impoverished enant farmer, and his wife Margaret ('Bonnie Peggy'), née Pasley, the sister of Admiral Sir Thomas Pasley. Sir James Malcolm, Admiral Sir Pulteney Malcolm, and Sir Charles Malcolm were among his brothers. He left school, family, and nation at the age of thirteen to join the East India Company, where he was known as 'Boy Malcolm.' Arriving in Madras as an ensign in the East India Company's Madras Army in 1783, he served as a regimental soldier for eleven years before returning to Britain for a year to recover his health. In 1795, he returned to India as General Sir Alured Clarke's Military Secretary, taking part in Clarke's seizure of the Cape of Good Hope en route. He served with the Hyderabad contingent in the Anglo-Mysore wars of 1799, and later as joint secretary of the Peace Commission that established Mysore's new government. subsequently that year, the Governor-General (Lord Mornington, subsequently Marquess Wellesley) appointed him to conduct a diplomatic mission to Iran. Read More Read Less