British administrator and historian Robert Orme was born on this day in Travancore state. His father was a physician in India.

Orme was a member of the Council at Fort St George, Madras (now Chennai), in the 1750s. He suggested that Robert Clive be appointed to lead the campaign against Bengal Nawab Siraj-ud-Daulah, after reports of the Black Hole incident in 1756.

Later, he and Clive were not on the best terms. On returning to England a few years later, Orme was chosen to be the historiographer of the British East India Company.

Among his books are: A History of the Military Transactions of the British Nation in Indostan from 1745 (1763–78). He also published Historical Fragments of the Mogul Empire, the Morattoes and English Concerns in Indostan from the year MDCLIX (1782).

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