General Sir James Watson KCB, after soldiering in the 14th Regiment of Foot, and being based in Bengal for a lot of the time he was in India. He was briefly the Commander-in-Chief of the British Army in India in 1835, while still only a Major General, standing in for Lord Bentinck, I believe, who had to return to Britain for one reason or another.

William Barnfield may also have been the William Barnfield who was a trustee of the Lall Bazar Baptist Church that William Carey started. I am trying to find out more about William Barnfield – I have already scoured the Fibis.org website for mentions of him, as well as the Asiatic Journal. I have found a reference to him in the 1803 (I think itwas that year, it was around that year, anyway) Bengal Directory, which mentions William Barnfield as both vestry clerk and “master in the charity school.” It seems that he may have become a merchant later on, along with his son, William Barnfield Jnr, and moved back to Britain in the 1820s. I would also like to find out definitively if Anne Watson, his first wife, was indeed a sister of James Watson. She died in 1804, and it seems William remarried in 1806 – this time an Elizabeth Nunn. She then seems to have died on the Circassian in 1825, just as it was leaving for Britain. William then seems to have been married a third time, to a Mary Sellers, in London, in 1827, and then he