Espinasse, Francis, and Francis Espinasse. “Maria Jane Jewsbury”. Lancashire Worthies: Second Series, Simpkin, Marshall; John Heywood, 1877, pp. 323-39.
330
United Company of Merchants of England Trading to the East Indies
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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. Mercer, Edmund. “Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury”. Manchester Quarterly, Vol. 17 , 1898, 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, 1 Sept.–30 Nov. 1984, pp. 450-73. 467 Bloom, Abigail Burnham, editor. Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers. Greenwood Press, 2000. 228 |
| 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, 1990. “Appendix A: Pioneer Biographies of the British Period to 1947”. Lonely Islands: The Andamanese, 1997. Mason, Philip et al. “Editorial materials”. An Englishwoman in India, edited by Anthony Sattin, Oxford University Press, 1986, pp. xviii - xxiii; 175. 198 |
| 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 | 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 | 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, 1990. 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, 1973, pp. xi - xxiv; 175. xvi |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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, 2003. 333 |
| 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 | 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 | 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... |
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...
National or international item
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.
Texts
No bibliographical results available.