United Company of Merchants of England Trading to the East Indies

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Family and Intimate relationships Marianne Chambers
MC 's father, Charles Chambers , saw long sea service with the East India Company . As Chief Mate of the ship Earl of Chesterfield from November 1786 to June 1788 he kept a journal...
Family and Intimate relationships Isabella Kelly
Robert Hawke Kelly's father was General Robert Kelly of the East India Company , a nabob. The general died within a few months of IK and Robert Kelly's marriage, and with his death Robert...
Family and Intimate relationships Caroline Chisholm
Caroline Jones married Captain Archibald Chisholm , a native of Scotland in the service of the East India Company .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Family and Intimate relationships Jemima Kindersley
Her only son (who bore the same name as his father) became the first person to translate from Tamil into English. He worked for the East India Company , and inscribed to his mother a...
Family and Intimate relationships Sarah Scott
Robert , baptised in 1717, became a sea captain employed by the East India Company .
Rizzo, Betty, and Sarah Scott. “Introduction”. The History of Sir George Ellison, University Press of Kentucky, p. ix - xlv.
ix, x
Family and Intimate relationships Mary Lamb
Charles Lamb , brother of Mary , retired from the office of the East India Company on grounds of ill-health (no concept of retirement for any other reason was recognised).
Burton, Sarah. A Double Life: A Biography of Charles and Mary Lamb. Viking.
333
Family and Intimate relationships Frances Power Cobbe
FPC was brought up in frequent contact with the children of her uncle Thomas , a lieutenant in the Bengal army who had contracted marriage in a Muslim ceremony with an Indian woman. Such marriages...
Family and Intimate relationships Hannah Cowley
HC 's husband left England for India, having been appointed a military captain with the East India Company .
Link, Frederick M., and Hannah Cowley. “Introduction”. The Plays of Hannah Cowley, Vol.
1
, Garland, p. v - xlxx.
v
Family and Intimate relationships Mary Lamb
From the age of fourteen Charles Lamb worked as a clerk, first in a merchant's counting-house, then for the South Sea Company and finally, for thirty-three years from April 1792 when he was seventeen, for...
Family and Intimate relationships Anna Steele
The apparently disastrous story of AS 's marriage remains untold. Her husband was a son of Sir Scudamore Steele, an army officer with the East India Company and said to have been a man of...
Family and Intimate relationships Julia Strachey
JS 's father, Oliver Strachey , was the sixth son of Sir Richard and Jane Maria, Lady Strachey . He attended Eton , then Balliol College, Oxford ; the family home was in London...
Family and Intimate relationships Anne Grant
One of AG 's sons, Duncan, received a commision in the service of the East India Company . This necessitated a trip to London in January 1805 for AG to arrange his affairs.
Paston, George, and George Paston. “Mrs. Grant of Laggan”. Little Memoirs of the Eighteenth Century, E. P. Dutton, pp. 237-96.
269
Family and Intimate relationships William Makepeace Thackeray
His father, Richmond Thackeray , was a secretary to the board of revenue in the East India Company at Calcutta. He had another child outside his marriage, a daughter by an Indian woman. He died...
Family and Intimate relationships Elizabeth Griffith
Her son (christened Richard like his father and uncle) did well in the East India Company and later became an Irish landowner and Member of Parliament.
Griffith, Elizabeth. “Introduction”. The Delicate Distress, edited by Cynthia Booth Ricciardi and Susan Staves, University Press of Kentucky, p. vii - xviii.
xxxii
Family and Intimate relationships Anna Leonowens
He had served as an enlisted soldier in the East India Company 's private army. Before joining the army in 1824, he was employed as a cabinetmaker in Middlesex.
Dow, Leslie Smith. Anna Leonowens: A Life Beyond The King and I. Pottersfield.
1-2

Timeline

No timeline events available.

Texts

No bibliographical results available.