Bristowe, William Syer. Louis and The King of Siam. Chatto and Windus.
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Connections
| Connections Sort descending | 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. Dow, Leslie Smith. Anna Leonowens: A Life Beyond The King and I. Pottersfield. 136 Dow, Leslie Smith. Anna Leonowens: A Life Beyond The King and I. Pottersfield. 1 Bristowe, William Syer. Louis and The King of Siam. Chatto and Windus. 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 | 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 | Maria Jane Jewsbury | After a short courtship, MJJ
married the Rev. William Kew Fletcher
, a chaplain for the East India Company
, at Penegoes in Montgomeryshire. Espinasse, Francis, and Francis Espinasse. “Maria Jane Jewsbury”. Lancashire Worthies: Second Series, Simpkin, Marshall; John Heywood, pp. 323-39. 330 Mercer, Edmund. “Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury”. Manchester Quarterly, Vol. 17 , pp. 301-21. 303 Fryckstedt, Monica Correa. “The Hidden Rill: The Life and Career of Maria Jane Jewsbury, II”. Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, Vol. 67 , No. 1, The Library, pp. 450-73. 467 Bloom, Abigail Burnham, editor. Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers. Greenwood Press. 228 |
| 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... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Eliza Ogilvy | Her grandfather Dr William Dick
was the chief surgeon to the East India Company
in Calcutta, India. 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. Ogilvy, Eliza et al. “Introduction and Appendices”. Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Letters to Mrs. David Ogilvy, edited by Peter N. Heydon and Philip Kelley, Quadrangle, pp. xi - xxiv; 175. xvi |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | Frances Power Cobbe | |
| 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 |
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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