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See Ormulum. Orme (ôrm), Robert. Born at Anjengo, Tra vancore, India, June, 1728: died at Great Eal ing, near London, Jan. 13, 1801. An English historian of India, son of Alexander Orme, surgeon in Anjengo. He was educated at Harrow, and in 1743 entered the East India Company's service at Calcutta. He was intimately a ociated with Lord Clive, succeeded Lord Pigot as governor of Madras, and was commi ary-general from 1757 to 1759. In 1759 he returned to London, and between 1763 and 1778 published a "History of the Military Transactions of the British Nation in In do stan from 1745." Orme's Head (ôrmz hed), Great, and Orme's Head, Little. Two promontories in Carnarvonshire, North Wales, which project into the Irish Sea about 35 miles west of Liverpool.