United Company of Merchants of England Trading to the East Indies

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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.
Bristowe, William Syer. Louis and The King of Siam. Chatto and Windus, 1976.
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Dow, Leslie Smith. Anna Leonowens: A Life Beyond The King and I. Pottersfield, 1991.
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Dow, Leslie Smith. Anna Leonowens: A Life Beyond The King and I. Pottersfield, 1991.
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Bristowe, William Syer. Louis and The King of Siam. Chatto and Windus, 1976.
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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 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).
Burton, Sarah. A Double Life: A Biography of Charles and Mary Lamb. Viking, 2003.
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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.
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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 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.
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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 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.
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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 ).
Grun, Bernard. The Timetables of History. 3rd revised, Simon and Schuster, 1991.
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Pagden, Anthony. “Oak in a Flowerpot”. London Review of Books, 14 Nov. 2002, pp. 9-10.
9

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.
Newman, Gerald, editor. Britain in the Hanoverian Age, 1714-1837: An Encyclopedia. Garland, 1997.
136
Bayly, Christopher Alan. Indian Society and the Making of the British Empire. Cambridge University Press, 1988.
45-51
Pagden, Anthony. “C is for Colonies”. London Review of Books, 11 May 2006, pp. 30-1.
30
Dalrymple, William. “The original corporate raiders”. Guardian Weekly, 20 Mar. 2015, pp. 26-9.
27

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.
Thomas, Peter David Garner. British Politics and the Stamp Act Crisis: The First Phase of the American Revolution, 1763-1767. Clarendon, 1975.
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Bayly, Christopher Alan. Indian Society and the Making of the British Empire. Cambridge University Press, 1988.
75
Newman, Gerald, editor. Britain in the Hanoverian Age, 1714-1837: An Encyclopedia. Garland, 1997.
354
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
43 (1773): 299

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.
Thomas, Peter David Garner. Tea Party to Independence: The Third Phase of the American Revolution, 1773-1776. Clarendon, 1991.
11, 17-8, 19, 21

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 .
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
61 (1786): 1

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 .
Neff, David Sprague. “Hostages to Empire: The Anglo-Indian Problem in Frankenstein, The Curse of Kehama, and The Missionary”. European Romantic Review, Vol.
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, No. 4, 1 Sept.–30 Nov. 1997, pp. 386-08.
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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.
Church Missionary Society Archive: Section VI: Missions to India. Adam Matthew.

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.
Pagden, Anthony. “Oak in a Flowerpot”. London Review of Books, 14 Nov. 2002, pp. 9-10.
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British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.

1805: The East India Company established a training...

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1805

The East India Company established a training college for civil servants.
Bayly, Christopher Alan. Atlas of the British Empire. Facts on File, 1989.
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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...

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.
Neill, Stephen. A History of Christian Missions. 2nd ed., Penguin, 1990.
227
Bradley, Ian. The Call to Seriousness: The Evangelical Impact on the Victorians. Jonathan Cape, 1976.
76
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
82 (1814): i: 337

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.
Lively, Penelope. A House Unlocked. Penguin, 2002.
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