Ames Library manuscripts relating to India 1757-1818

Hastings, Warren, 1732-1818

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Hastings was the first governor general of British India. He began in 1750 as a clerk at the East India Company. In 1761, he was appointed to the Calcutta Council, and in 1769, was made a member of the Madras Council. In 1771, he became governor of Bengal, and in 1774, governor general of India. In 1784, he resigned and returned to England, where he was charged with high crimes and misdemenears. He was impeached in 1787 but, after a long trial, was acquitted in 1795. He was made a privy councilo...

Shore, J.

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Title: 1st Baron Teignmouth British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001512.0x0000d8 Epithet: of Egerton Ch 7533 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001034.0x00007e Epithet: Member of the Council at Fort William afterwards Baron Teignmouth, and Governor-General of Bengal British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Pers...

Wood, Mark, Sir, 1st Baronet, Colonel

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Epithet: Colonel Title: 1st Baronet British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001569.0x000159 ...

De Briancourt, Anquetil, Sieur

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Title: Sieur British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001394.0x00027d ...

Clive, Robert Clive, baron, 1725-1774

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Governor of Bengal, 1758-1760; 1764-1767. From the description of Letters , 1757-1758. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 86126330 1744-1746 writer, East India Company; 1746 accountant's office, East India Company; 1746 ensign, army of the East India Company; 1749 lieutenant; 1751 captain; 1954-1755 Member of Parliament for the borough of Mitchell; 1756 Govenor of Fort Saint David; 1758-1760 Govenor of Bengal; 1761-1765 Member of Parliament for Shrewsbury; 1765-1767...

Coote, Eyre, Sir, 1726-1783

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British general. From the description of Autograph letters signed (2) in third person : Ghiretti, to Sir Philip Francis, 1780 May 14 and Aug. 25. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270532717 General and Commander-in-Chief in the Madras Presidency, 1759-1762 and 1769-1770. Commander-in-Chief in India 1777-1783. From the description of Papers, 1755-[1783?]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122373935 1744-1746 ensign in the 27th foot; 1748-1749 corne...

Munro, Hector

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Epithet: Major-General; KB British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000985.0x000152 Epithet: General British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001440.0x000038 Epithet: General MP British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000471.0x0002ac ...

Goodwyn, Thomas Wildman

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Dundas, Henry, 1742-1811

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Henry Dundas, the first Viscount Melville (1742-1811), statesman, was the father of Robert Saunders Dundas, the second Viscount Melville (1771-1851), also a statesman. Henry Dundas was educated at Edinburgh High School and University, before becoming solicitor-general for Scotland in 1766. He was M.P. for Midlothian 1774-1790, except for a few months in 1782, when he sat for Newtown, Isle of Wight. He was lord advocate 1775-1783, lord rector of Glasgow University 1781-1783, privy councillor, and...

Canning, Charles John, 1812-1862

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First Vice-Roy of India. From the description of Autograph letter signed : [London], to Sir Henry Yule, 1859 Apr. 24. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270133453 Governor General of India during the Mutiny. From the description of Letters, 1857 April 4 and 20. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). WorldCat record id: 62684687 1836-1837 MP for Warwick; 1837 entered House of Lords as Viscount Canning of Kilbrahan; 1841-1845 under-secretary of s...

Verelst, Harry

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Cornwallis, William, Sir, 1744-1819

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British naval officer. From the description of Papers, 1776-1782. (New York University, Group Batchload). WorldCat record id: 58662656 Epithet: of Stowe MS 268 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000572.0x000170 Admiral. Commander-in-Chief in the East Indies. From the description of Papers, 1788-1793. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122524261 British admiral. ...

Bengal Army (active 1709-1972)

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Wellesley, Richard Colley, 2nd Earl of Mornington; Marquess Wellesley

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Title: 2nd Earl of Mornington; Marquess Wellesley British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001569.0x00008e ...

Madras Civil Service (active 1757-1916)

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Ames Library (active 1757-1818)

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Fitzgerald, Charles John Oswald, Sir, Colonel

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Justice (Administration of : active 1719-1998)

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Burr, Charles Barton, Lieutenant-Colonel

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Epithet: Lieutenant-Colonel British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001394.0x000326 ...