Digital Rare Book :
The Life and Letters of Raja Rammohun Roy
By Sophia Dobson Collet
Edited by Hem Chandra Sarkar
Published in Calcutta - 1914

Sophia Dobson Collet was born on the 2nd Feb., 1822 in a Unitarian family of London long connected with India. Her great grand-uncle Joseph Collet, was Governor of Fort St. George ( Madras ) for about two years from 1719. The family has still in its possession a curious model, about two feet high, of Governor Collet in court-dress, which was made in India after the original and sent home to his brother, Samuel, from whom Miss Collet was descended. Her mother's
brother, Captain Collet Barber also was in the service of the East India Company.