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| birth_date ={{birth date|1766|8|17|df=y}}<ref name="Plantagenet_Roll">[[Melville Henry Massue|The Marquis of Ruvigny and Ranieval]],"The Plantagenet Roll of the Blood Royal: The Mortimer-Percy Volume", 1911, [https://archive.org/stream/plantagenetrollo01ruvi#page/206/mode/2up p. 206]</ref> or {{birth date|1766|11|17|df=y}}<ref name="Antigua">Vere Langord, Oliver, "The History of the Island of Antigua", 1899, [https://archive.org/stream/historyofislando03oliv#page/66/mode/2up p. 66]</ref><br />
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[[Major-General (United Kingdom)|Major-General]] '''James Hanson Salmond''' (1766–1837) was an officer in the [[East India Company]]'s Forces who went on to be [[Military Secretary to the India Office|Military Secretary to the East India Company]].<br />
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==Military career==<br />
Salmond, a subaltern in the [[East India Company]]'s Forces, was [[Officer (armed forces)|commissioned]] into the [[British Army]] in 1796.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=13939|page=956|date=8 October 1796}}</ref> He was appointed [[Adjutant]] of the 1st Regiment of Royal East India Volunteers later that year.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=13955|page=1147|date=26 November 1796}}</ref><br />
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He was appointed [[Military Secretary to the India Office|Military Secretary to the East India Company]] in 1809<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=YSK8AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA265 The military in British India: the development of British Land Forces in South Asia, 1600-1947 By T. A. Heathcote, Page265] Manchester University Press, 1995, {{ISBN|978-0-7190-3570-8}}</ref> and promoted to [[Major-General (United Kingdom)|Major-General]] in 1837.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=19459|page=139|date=20 January 1837}}</ref><br />
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He also wrote a history of the [[Anglo-Mysore Wars]].<ref name=bio>[http://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/SearchResults?vci=53892121&vcat=Naval+and+Military+History&vcatn=Naval+and+Military+History&bx=on Letter to Prime Minister Henry Addington from Richard Wellesley Whilst Governor General of India]</ref><br />
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==Family==<br />
In 1798 he married Louisa Scott<ref name=bio/> and then in 1808 he married Rachel Mary Ann Constable.<ref name="Antigua" /><ref name="Descendants of Leonard Belt">[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~akrb61/people/belt/d8.htm Descendants of Leonard Belt] Roots.web</ref><br />
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By his first wife,<ref name="Antigua" /> he had a son, Lieutenant Colonel James Salmond (1805-1880), who married Emma Isabella Coke (d. 1886), daughter of [[D'Ewes Coke|D'ewes Coke (1774-1856)]].<ref name="Antigua" /> One of their sons was [[William Salmond (British Army officer)|Sir William Salmond]].<ref name="Antigua" /><br />
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By his second wife,<ref name="Antigua" /> he had a son, Edward Salmond (1809-1821).<ref name="Descendants of Leonard Belt"/><ref name="Antigua" /><br />
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==Ancestry==<br />
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|1= 1. '''James Hanson Salmond'''<br />
|2= 2. William Salmond (1737-1779)<br />
|3= 3. Jane Hasell (1745-1820)<br />
|4= 4. Capt. James Salmond of Antigua (1694-1746)<br />
|5= 5. Lydia Kennedy (d. 1748)<br />
|6= 6. Edward Hasell (d. 1781)<br />
|7= 7. Julia Musgrave (1716-1778)<br />
|10= 10. William Kennedy of Antigua<br />
|14= 14. [[Sir Christopher Musgrave, 5th Baronet]]<br />
|15= 15. Julia Chardin<br />
|28= 28. Philip Musgrave (d. 1689),<br>son of [[Sir Christopher Musgrave, 4th Baronet]]<br />
|29= 29. Hon. Mary Legge,<br>daughter of [[George Legge, 1st Baron Dartmouth]]<br />
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