Dictionary of Indian Biography/Callcott, Maria, Lady

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CALLCOTT, MARIA, LADY (1785–1842)

Daughter of Rear-Admiral George Dundas, whom she accompanied to India early in 1808 : she married Capt. Thomas Graham, R.N., 1809 : and travelled in India : returned to England, 1811 : sailed with her husband for S. America in 1821 : he died off Cape Horn in 1822 : she manied, in 1827, Augustus Wall Callcott, R.A., who was knighted on the Queen's Accession, 1837 : she died Nov. 28, 1842 : she wrote, as Maria Graham, Journal of a Residence in India, 1812 Letters on India, 1814, besides other works on travels, etc. : including Little Arthur's History of England, 1835.