United Company of Merchants of England Trading to the East Indies

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.

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...

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...

Here HM predicted that India would be lost to Britain if the state governed it directly rather than through the East India Company , a change which came about only five months later.

Anna Harriett Emma Edwards (later AL ), educator and writer, was born in the East India Company barracks at Ahmednagar in India.

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.

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.

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).

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...

Their father lost his primary job just as he was becoming too infirm (and disabled in one hand) to work as a butler in the Inner Temple. Their grandmother Mary Field died four days after...

After a lifetime of financial anxiety, Charles had left to Mary, besides an annuity from the East India Company , an estate of something between £1,500 and £2,000, so she wanted for nothing. In June...

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...

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...

After a short courtship, MJJ married the Rev. William Kew Fletcher , a chaplain for the East India Company , at Penegoes in Montgomeryshire.

The Athenæum published portions of the travel journal of MJJ , who had departed for India in September 1832 with her husband , a chaplain for the East India Company .