DOBBIE, Robert Shedden. Great Saling, Essex 29.1.1821 — Bangalore 2.5.1868. British Colonial Officer in India. Son of navy officer William Hugh Dobbie (1771–1830) and Agatha Shedden Goodrich (1784–1841). Captain in Madras Army in 1848, marrying Isabella Monteith, and still 1856, when he married Mary Elizabeth Groves (1833–1907). One daughter with the first wife, another with the second. Finally Colonel. His only work is the pocket dictionary (in 12°).
Publications: A Pocket Dictionary of English and Hindoostani. 221 p. L. 1846-47.
Sources: Myheritage and other stray notes in Internet.
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