THE ANNUAL BIOGRAPHY AND OBITUARY, FOR THE YEAR 1827. VOL. XI. LONDON: PRINTED FOR LONGMAN, REES, ORME, BROWN, AND GREEN, PATERNOSTER-ROW. 1827. MEMOIRS OF CELEBRATED PERSONS, WHO HAVE DIED WITHIN THE YEARS 1825-1826. No. I. MAJOR-GENERAL SIR DAVID OCHTERLONY, BART. G. C. B. THIS gallant and distinguished officer was born on the 12th of February, 1758. He was the eldest son of David Ochterlony, Esq. of Boston, New England. His paternal greatgrandfather, Alexander Ochterlony, was Laird of Petforthy, in the county of Angus. When eighteen, the subject of this memoir went to India as a Cadet. He was appointed Ensign on the Bengal Establishment on the 7th of February, 1778; and became Lieutenant on the 17th of September following. Lieutenant Ochterlony's regiment, the 24th Native Infantry, was one of the five regiments sent in 1781 from Bengal, under Colonel Pearse, as a reinforcement to the Presidency of Madras, in consequence of the irruption of Hyder Ali into the Carnatic, and the total defeat of Colonel |