United Company of Merchants of England Trading to the East Indies

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Birth Anna Leonowens
Anna Harriett Emma Edwards (later AL ), educator and writer, was born in the East India Company barracks at Ahmednagar in India.
AL lied about her age, making herself three years younger.
Bristowe, William Syer. Louis and The King of Siam. Chatto and Windus, 1976.
26
Dow, Leslie Smith. Anna Leonowens: A Life Beyond The King and I. Pottersfield, 1991.
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Dow, Leslie Smith. Anna Leonowens: A Life Beyond The King and I. Pottersfield, 1991.
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Bristowe, William Syer. Louis and The King of Siam. Chatto and Windus, 1976.
26
Characters Mary Elizabeth Braddon
A dashing East India Company officer bilks the heir to a baronetcy of his fortune by kidnapping him and substituting the murderous son of a gamekeeper, who is in turn murdered by the family of...
Cultural formation Harriet Tytler
She was brought up in Anglo-Indian or British India in a Christian and probably white family. She had an itinerant childhood, her family following wherever her father was posted in his military service for the...
Employer John Stuart Mill
In May 1823, his father's influence won JSM a position as a clerk for the East India Company . He worked there until his retirement in 1858, when the Crown took control of the company...
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, 1901, pp. 237-96.
269
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, 1991.
1-2
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 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, 1997, p. vii - xviii.
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Family and Intimate relationships Anna Leonowens
Two months after Anna's birth, her mother married second corporal Patrick Donoughey , who was also with the East India Company 's private army. He was later demoted to private.
Bristowe, William Syer. Louis and The King of Siam. Chatto and Windus, 1976.
27
Dow, Leslie Smith. Anna Leonowens: A Life Beyond The King and I. Pottersfield, 1991.
1-2
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, 1979, p. v - xlxx.
v
Family and Intimate relationships Damaris Masham
DM mentions her brother Charles as the Dearest Person in the World to me. She felt she was making a great sacrifice when she did not oppose his travelling to India as a factor with...
Family and Intimate relationships Frances Wright
FW 's brother, Richard , serving with the East India Company , was killed en route to India in a skirmish with the French.
Eckhardt, Celia Morris. Fanny Wright. Harvard University Press, 1984.
7
Family and Intimate relationships John Stuart Mill
His father, James Mill , was a historian and head of the East India Company 's examiner's office; his son's autobiography introduces him as author of The History of British India, 1817.
Rose, Phyllis. Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages. Alfred A. Knopf, 1984.
103
Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press, 1988.
503
Family and Intimate relationships Frances Wright
Following the deaths of FW 's parents, her brother, Richard Wright , was sent to Glasgow to be brought up by James Mylne and his wife Agnes . Richard later served with the East India Company .
Eckhardt, Celia Morris. Fanny Wright. Harvard University Press, 1984.
5, 6
Family and Intimate relationships Mary Catherine Hume
MCH 's mother, Maria Burnley before her marriage, was the daughter of a wealthy proprietor in the East India Company . She became her husband's political hostess and secretary.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 240. Gale Research, 2001.
240: 100
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Joseph Hume

Timeline

24 September 1600: A meeting of eighty London merchants was...

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24 September 1600

A meeting of eighty London merchants was held as a consequence of which, in 1600, the East India Company received its charter as the Governor and Company of Merchants of London Trading into the East Indies

1668: The East India Company acquired Bombay, the...

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1668

The East India Company acquired Bombay, the present-day Mumbai (which had come to the British crown in 1662 as part of the dowry of Catherine of Braganza ).
Grun, Bernard. The Timetables of History. 3rd revised, Simon and Schuster, 1991.
304
Pagden, Anthony. “Oak in a Flowerpot”. London Review of Books, 14 Nov. 2002, pp. 9-10.
9

June 1757: Robert Clive's forces defeated the Nawab...

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June 1757

Robert Clive 's forces defeated the Nawab of Bengal at the battle of Plassey, consolidating UK power on the subcontinent.
Newman, Gerald, editor. Britain in the Hanoverian Age, 1714-1837: An Encyclopedia. Garland, 1997.
136
Bayly, Christopher Alan. Indian Society and the Making of the British Empire. Cambridge University Press, 1988.
45-51
Pagden, Anthony. “C is for Colonies”. London Review of Books, 11 May 2006, pp. 30-1.
30
Dalrymple, William. “The original corporate raiders”. Guardian Weekly, 20 Mar. 2015, pp. 26-9.
27

12 August 1765: The East India Company took over the direct...

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12 August 1765

The East India Company took over the direct administration of revenues from Bengal. The young Mughal emperor, Shah Alam, dismissed his tax-collectors and gave their powers to officers of the company, in which...

After June 1773: Over protest from the House of Lords, the...

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After June 1773

Over protest from the House of Lords , the India Regulating Act enacted the first direct British government intervention in the administration of India.
Thomas, Peter David Garner. British Politics and the Stamp Act Crisis: The First Phase of the American Revolution, 1763-1767. Clarendon, 1975.
9
Bayly, Christopher Alan. Indian Society and the Making of the British Empire. Cambridge University Press, 1988.
75
Newman, Gerald, editor. Britain in the Hanoverian Age, 1714-1837: An Encyclopedia. Garland, 1997.
354
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
43 (1773): 299

28 November 1773: The first tea ship reached Boston, Massachusetts,...

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28 November 1773

The first tea ship reached Boston, Massachusetts, since the passing of the Tea Act; this provoked violent resistance including the Boston tea-party of 16 December.
Thomas, Peter David Garner. Tea Party to Independence: The Third Phase of the American Revolution, 1773-1776. Clarendon, 1991.
11, 17-8, 19, 21

1780-1785: During these years, East India Company records...

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1780-1785

During these years, East India Company records show that more than one-third of British men who made a will in India bequeathed everything to their Indian wives or among their mixed-race families. In fifty years...

By January 1786: Charles Wilkins' translation from Sanskrit...

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By January 1786

Charles Wilkins ' translation from Sanskrit of the Bhagvat Gita was published at the particular desire of Warren Hastings and by the authority of the court of directors of the East India Company .
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
61 (1786): 1

1791: Anglo-Indians (that is males of mixed race)...

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1791

Anglo-Indians (that is males of mixed race) were precluded from employment as officers in the Civil, Military or Marine services of the [East India] Company .
Neff, David Sprague. “Hostages to Empire: The Anglo-Indian Problem in Frankenstein, The Curse of Kehama, and The Missionary”. European Romantic Review, Vol.
8
, No. 4, 1 Sept.–30 Nov. 1997, pp. 386-08.
389

1793: William Wilberforce led an unsuccessful attempt...

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1793

William Wilberforce led an unsuccessful attempt to get the East India Company 's statutes charter amended, to commit it to furthering the work of missionaries.
Church Missionary Society Archive: Section VI: Missions to India. Adam Matthew.

1801: Sarah Shade dictated and published her autobiography,...

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1801

Sarah Shade dictated and published her autobiography, A Narrative of the Life of Sarah Shade, which relates her life, marriages, and other experience in colonial India.
Pagden, Anthony. “Oak in a Flowerpot”. London Review of Books, 14 Nov. 2002, pp. 9-10.
9
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.

1805-1830: During these years the proportion of British...

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1805-1830

During these years the proportion of British men who made their wills in India and left their property to Indian wives or mixed-race families dropped from one in four to one in six, according to...

1805: The East India Company established a training...

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1805

The East India Company established a training college for civil servants.
Bayly, Christopher Alan. Atlas of the British Empire. Facts on File, 1989.
94

By 19 October 1814: The Episcopal Church in India was founded,...

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By 19 October 1814

The Episcopal Church in India was founded, with Thomas Fanshaw Middleton installed as the subcontinent's first Anglican bishop.
Neill, Stephen. A History of Christian Missions. 2nd ed., Penguin, 1990.
227
Bradley, Ian. The Call to Seriousness: The Evangelical Impact on the Victorians. Jonathan Cape, 1976.
76
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
82 (1814): i: 337

1816: John Reeves, a tea inspector with the East...

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1816

John Reeves , a tea inspector with the East India Company , sent the first wisteria plant from China to England.
Lively, Penelope. A House Unlocked. Penguin, 2002.
118

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