SALTYKOV, Alexander N. (1775-1837)
Listed by Macquarie in his 1807 journal (September) in St Petersburg as Count Soltikoff. Russian statesman and diplomat; Senator; Comrade (assistant) of the Minister of Foreign Affairs (1806-1810); Saltykov served as the Foreign Affairs Ministry Administrator (1807, 1812) during the absence of the Foreign Minister; he retired in 1817.
Source: personal communication Y. Aksenov [2005].

SANTOS, William
NSW colonial shipbuilder.

SCOTT, Thomas Hobbes (1783-1860)
Archdeacon, Church of England clergyman. Served as Secretary to J.T. Bigge during his Commission of Inquiry in NSW in 1819-1820. Returned to Australia in 1825.
[NSW]
[see: Australian Dictionary of Biography; also available online].

SIMSON, George (1767-1848)
Writer (HEIC) and civil official in Bombay; MP (House of Commons), elected as member for Maidstone 1806-1818. Lachlan Macquarie knew the Simson and his wife Mary in Bombay during his courtship and marriage to Jane Jarvis in 1793 and 1794, and the Macquaries' first home in Bombay after their marriage had been occupied previously by George and Mary Simson. Macquarie also visited the Simsons in their home in Portland Place, London in 1804-1805. George died at Pitcorthie House, Fife, Scotland, on 7 July 1848, aged 81

SIMSON, Mary (1772-1820)
Wife of George Simson (1767-1820), married in 1792, and lived in Bombay and London. Visited by Lachlan Macquarie in 1804-1805. She died at Sillwood Park, Sunning Hill, Berkshire, on 17 May 1820, aged 48.

SKINNER, Richard (d.1846)
Master, RN, and Overseer of Convicts at Bermuda.
Commissioned: Master 21 October 1808.
Commanded H.M. Storeship Dromedary on voyage to NSW in 1819-1822; retained command of the Dromedary prison hulk as Master and Overseer of Convicts at Bermuda until at least 1834.
Retired on a pension of £112 per annum.
Died: 9 December 1846 at Antwerp.

SKOTTOWE, Thomas Britiffe (1787-1820) - Captain
Military officer: 73rd Regiment; served in NSW and VDL: 1810-1815, Commandant at Newcastle 1811-1814; served in Ceylon: 1815-1817.

SMITH, Haddon (c.1777-1840) - Captain
Military officer: 73rd Regiment; served in NSW and VDL: 1811-1814, Ceylon: 1814-1821.

SMITH, William (c.1756 - )
Captain of the HEIC ship Dublin between 1784-1796 (5 voyages) including the voyage by Lachlan Macquarie to India in 1788.
Sources: Macquarie, L. Journal: 30 March 1788; Farrington, A. A Biographical Index of East India Company Maritime Service Officers 1600-1834. p.733.

SORELL, William (1773-1848)
Military officer and Lieutenant Governor of Van Diemen's Land from 1817 to 1824.
[NSW]
[see: Australian Dictionary of Biography; also available online; Mickleborough, Leonie. William Sorell in Van Diemen's Land: Lieutenant-Governor, 1817-1824. A Golden Age?. Sandy Bay, Tasmania: Blubberhead Press, 2004].

STEWART, Robert (1747-1813), of Achadashenaig and Sorne.
Sheriff Substitute; helped to resolve legal disputes amongst landholders, tenants and crofters on Mull, Scotland.
[see: Currie, J. Mull: the island and its people. Edinburgh: Birlinn, 2000 p.234].

STRATHALLAN, Lord - see DRUMMOND, James (1767-1851)

STUART, James (1741-1815) - General
Scottish. Professional soldier. Macquarie's commanding officer in Ceylon (1796) and in 1799 during the campaign against Tipu Sultan in Mysore.
Born: 2 March 1741. Third son of John Stuart of Blairhall, Perthshire, and Anne, daughter of Francis, Earl of Murray. Educated in Scotland, joined the army. 1775-1778 fought in the American War of Independence attaining the rank of Major in the 78th Regiment of Foot 1780-1783. Served in India 1780-1805: fought in 2nd Mysore War (1780-1783), present in 1782 at the siege of Cuddalore; during 3rd Mysore War (1790-1792), at Dindigul, Palqhaut and Seringapatam; promoted to Colonel in 1792 and travelled to Britain. Returned to Madras in 1794.

Appointed Major-General in 1795 and led British military expedition to Ceylon, and in 1796 secured the surrender of all Dutch forces throughout the island; appointed Commander-in-Chief at Madras in 1796; gazetted as Colonel of the 78th Regiment in 1798; during 4th Mysore War (1799), commanded the Bombay Army on the march from the Malabar Coast through Coorg (Kodagu) to Mysore, fought forces of Tipu Sultan at Sedaseer and Seringapatam; appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Madras Army in 1801; attained rank of Lieutenant-General in 1802; fought in the 2nd Mahratta War (1803-1805). Returned to Britain in 1805 due to bad health. Promoted to General in 1812. Died (without issue): at Berkeley Square, London, on 29 April 1815.

Sources: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography; Riddick, John F. Who Was Who in British India. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, 1998 p.353.

SUTTOR, George (1774-1859)
Free settler in NSW, supporter of Governor Bligh, superintendent of the Lunatic Asylum at Castle Hill (1814-1819).
[see: Australian Dictionary of Biography Vol. 2; also available online]

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