| Names: | | | Dates: | 1815, 8 April - 1881, 17 May | | Born: | India, Bombay | | Died: | England, East Grinstead, Apsleytown |
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John Falconer, British Library
A Biographical Dictionary of 19th Century Photographers in South and South-East Asia |
Amateur, India
Son of Lieut.-Col. David Barr, Bombay Army, and his wife Mary; educated Addiscombe, 1830; Bombay Army; entered 8th Bombay Native Infantry 1834;[1] Lieutenant-Colonel, Bombay Staff Corps, 1861 to death.
His prints of scenery around Bombay were shown to the Bombay Photographic Society in 1856. He was a Council Member of the Society in 1857.
President, Bombay Photographic Society, 1856, Member of Council, 1857-(59).[2]
IOR/L/MIL/12/71/f.139.
Footnotes
- Λ IOR/L/MIL/9/175/ff.350-56
- Λ Bombay Calendar and Almanac.
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