​BURNES, JAMES (1801–1862)

Elder brother of Sir Alexander Burnes, (q.v.): born Feb. 12, 1801: educated at Edinburgh University and London hospitals: went out to Bombay with his brother, 1821: was Residency Surgeon at Cutch: in the expedition of 1825 against Sind: invited, in 1827, by the Amirs to Sind: from 1837, he held medical and other scientific appointments at Bombay, and was Secretary and Member of the Medical Board and, finally, Physician-General, retiring in 1849: President of the Medical and Physical Society: Vice-President of the Bombay Asiatic Society: was LL.D. of Glasgow, 1834: F.R.C.P. of Edinburgh: F.R.S. and a Knight of the Guelphic Order: wrote a Narrative of a Visit to Sind, and a History of Cutch: died Sep. 19, 1862.