United Company of Merchants of England Trading to the East Indies

The Athenæum published portions of the travel journal of MJJ , who had departed for India in September 1832 with her husband , a chaplain for the East India Company .

The labyrinthine plot focuses on Estrild Carbonellis, and her fiancé Harold Olver. For hundreds of years, the Carbonellises, wealthy owners of Langarth estate in Cornwall, have been doomed by a curse to die in...

Robert , baptised in 1717, became a sea captain employed by the East India Company .

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...

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...

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).

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...

HC 's husband left England for India, having been appointed a military captain with the East India Company .

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...

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...

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...

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.

CMT 's father, Henry St George Tucker , lived in India from the age of fourteen to that of thirty-nine. A prominent citizen of Bengal, with expertise in Indian affairs and finance, he eventually became...

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.

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.