Burton, Sarah. A Double Life: A Biography of Charles and Mary Lamb. Viking, 2003.
333
United Company of Merchants of England Trading to the East Indies
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | 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). |
| 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 | Mary Lamb | 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... |
| 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 | 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, 1996, p. ix - xlv. ix, x |
| 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 | 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 | Frances Power Cobbe | |
| 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. 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, 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 | 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 | 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 |
Timeline
7 December 1829: The Governor General of India, Lord William...
National or international item
7 December 1829
The Governor General of India, Lord William Bentinck
, officially outlawed the practice of sati or suttee, the self-immolation of a Hindu widow at her husband's funeral, generally by burning.
Mani, Lata. Contentious Traditions: The Debate on Sati in Colonial India. University of California Press, 1998.
112-3
28 August 1833: An act opening trade to India and tea trade...
National or international item
28 August 1833
An act opening trade to India and tea trade to China began a new era in British commerce, ending the East India Company
's monopoly of the China trade.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
I: 820
Steinberg, Sigfrid Henry. Historical Tables: 58 BC-AD 1985. 11th ed., Garland Publishing, 1986.
195
By mid nineteenth century: East India Company archives record the near...
Building item
By mid nineteenth century
East India Company
archives record the near disappearance of wills made by British men in India which left their property to Indian wives or mixed-race families. Back in the early 1780s a third of British...
10 May 1857-1858: The Indian Mutiny, a war for independence...
National or international item
10 May 1857-1858
The Indian Mutiny, a war for independence in northern India, began with the rebellion by sepoy troops in the Bengal army at Meerut, against the East India Company
.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
I: 822-3
Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press, 1988.
390-391
Hilton, Richard. The Indian Mutiny: A Centenary History. Hollis and Carter, 1957.
99
2 August 1858: Government and military control of India...
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2 August 1858
Government and military control of India was transferred by the Government of India Act from the East India Company
to the British Crown
after the successful suppression of the Indian Mutiny by the British army...
1 April 1867: The government of the Straits Settlements...
National or international item
1 April 1867
The government of the Straits Settlements (which included Singapore, Penang, and Malacca) was transferred from the government of India to the British Secretary of State for the Colonies.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
I: 900
Langer, William L., editor. An Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, Chronologically Arranged. 4th ed., Houghton Mifflin, 1968.
908
1 June 1874: The East India Company's 1854 charter ran...
National or international item
1 June 1874
The East India Company
's 1854 charter ran out, and the company was dissolved.
Gardner, Brian. The East India Company: A History. Hart-Davis, 1971.
296
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 21st ed., Ward, Lock and Bowden, 1895.
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