![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() There he studied to improve his English language skills at a local school, and fell in love with Jane Daly, a "pretty Irish girl of respectable parentage". In 1784, Mahomed emigrated to Cork, Ireland, with the Baker family. That same year, Mahomed also resigned from the Army, choosing to accompany Baker, 'his best friend', to Ireland. He remained with Captain Baker until 1782, when the Captain resigned. Mahomed served in the army of the East India Company as a trainee surgeon and against the Marathas. His father served in the East India Company's Bengal Army and died in battle when Mahomed was about 11 years old.Following his father's death, he was taken under the wing of Captain Godfrey Evan Baker, an Anglo-Irish Protestant officer. He claimed to be related to the Nawabs of Bengal, and that he had ancestors who worked in administrative service under the Mughal Emperors. May 1759 in the city of Patna, then part of the Bengal Presidency in British India, he was from a Bengali Muslim family. ![]()
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