United Company of Merchants of England Trading to the East Indies

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Connections Author name Excerpt
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 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...
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...
Family and Intimate relationships Charlotte Brooke
Of all Charlotte's sisters and brothers, only one other, her brother Arthur, was like her in outliving their parents. He became a captain in the service of the East India Company , and died in...
Family and Intimate relationships Dorothy Bussy
DB 's mother, Jane Maria (Grant), Lady Strachey , was born on 13 March 1840 aboard an East India Company ship off the Cape of Good Hope. Her parents were Henrietta Chichele (of an...
Family and Intimate relationships Dorothy Bussy
Oliver Strachey , like a number of Strachey men, worked with the East India Company . His second wife was Rachel (Ray) Costelloe , Newnham College graduate, women's rights activist, and author, best known for...
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...
Residence Caroline Chisholm
CC was joined in Australia by her husband when he retired from the East India Company .
Kiddle, Margaret, and Sir Douglas Copland. Caroline Chisholm. Melbourne University Press.
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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 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.
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politics Lucie Duff Gordon
LDG involved herself with the cause of Azimullah Khan , who visited England seeking to have an East India Company pension restored to Nana Sahib , the adopted son of Indian prince Baji Rao II .
Frank, Katherine. Lucie Duff Gordon: A Passage to Egypt. Hamish Hamilton.
177-81
Textual Features Ann Gomersall
Eleonora Sheldon writes her life story to an absent female friend. She was orphaned at ten after her proud, extravagant mother had bankrupted her father, and was educated by her father's ex-clerk, a good and...
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.
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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.
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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 ).

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.

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.

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.

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 .

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 .

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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