Robert Hyde Colebrooke

Copy of a miniature that was painted between 1790 and 1795 showing Colebrooke in a scarlet uniform with dark blue collar.[1]

Robert Hyde Colebrooke (1762? - 21 September 1808) was a British infantry officer in India who conducted early surveys in Bengal and Mysore before becoming Surveyor General of Bengal, a position he held from 1788 to 1794 succeeding Alexander Kyd.

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