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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 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Charlotte Maria Tucker | 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... |
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. 27 Dow, Leslie Smith. Anna Leonowens: A Life Beyond The King and I. Pottersfield. 1-2 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Anne Bannerman | The brother, a surgeon with the East India Company
, died helping at the wreck of the ship Winterton. Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Harriet Tytler | HT
was devoted to her father, John Lucas Earle
. He was an army captain, later lieutenant-colonel in the Third Bengal Native Infantry
, in the service of the East India Company
. 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. “Appendix A: Pioneer Biographies of the British Period to 1947”. Lonely Islands: The Andamanese. Mason, Philip et al. “Editorial materials”. An Englishwoman in India, edited by Anthony Sattin, Oxford University Press, pp. xviii - xxiii; 175. 198 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Caroline Bowles | Her father was Charles Bowles
, a captain in the East India Company
. He retired from his post shortly after Caroline's birth and later served three terms as Lymington's Mayor. He suffered from frequent... |
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. 7 |
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. Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 240. Gale Research. 240: 100 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under Joseph Hume |
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. 103 Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press. 503 |
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