Category: British East India Company

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Honourable East India Company India Project The British East India Company was an English and later (from 1707) British joint-stock company and megacorporation formed for pursuing trade with the East Indies but which ended up trading mainly with the Indian subcontinent.

The East India Company traded mainly in cotton, silk, indigo dye, salt, saltpetre, tea and opium. The Company was granted a Royal Charter in 1600, making it the oldest among several similarly formed European East India Companies. Shares of the company were owned by wealthy merchants and aristocrats. It was an example of an English joint stock company. The government owned no shares and had only indirect control. The Company eventually came to rule large areas of India with its own private armies, exercising military power and assuming administrative functions.[4] Company rule in India effectively began in 1757 after the Battle of Plassey and lasted until 1858 when, following the Indian Rebellion of 1857, the Government of India Act 1858 led to the British Crown assuming direct control of India in the new British Raj.

The Company was dissolved in 1874 as a result of the East India Stock Dividend Redemption Act passed one year earlier, as the Government of India Act had by then rendered it vestigial, powerless and obsolete. Its functions had been fully absorbed into official government machinery in the British Raj and its private army had been nationalised by the British Crown.

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02 Nov 1565 Guildford, Surrey, England - 10 Jan 1642
bef 18 Oct 1579 London, England - 10 Sep 1640 photo
1653 Rochester, Kent, England - 1700
bef 08 Feb 1828 Cupar, Fife, Scotland - 18 Sep 1887
1803 London, England - 21 Aug 1858
03 Feb 1810 Madras, Madras, India - 14 Apr 1876
24 Dec 1803 Hoddom, Dumfriesshire, Scotland, United Kingdom - 06 May 1846
05 Oct 1805 Hoddom, Dumfriesshire, Scotland, United Kingdom - 16 Oct 1879

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1743 Scotland - 21 Aug 1820 photo
abt 1762 Scotland - Dec 1806 photo
abt May 1787 Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, India photo
abt 1760 - 24 Aug 1795 photo
abt Dec 1777 Rottingdean, Sussex, England - 19 Mar 1829 photo
12 Feb 1826 Garden Reach, Calcutta, India - 08 Aug 1892
20 Jun 1829 Portbury, Somerset, England - 01 Apr 1880
23 Jun 1620 Brightwell, Suffolk, England - 08 Nov 1707 photo
aft 1760 - aft Oct 1854
08 Apr 1815 Bombay, India
30 Dec 1818 Bombay, India - 21 Jan 1873
20 Feb 1832 Bombay, India - 06 Aug 1854
20 Nov 1786 Westbourne, Sussex, England - 06 Mar 1846 photo
abt 08 Oct 1741 Calcutta, Bengal, India - 02 Sep 1804 photo
abt 1709 Middlesex, England - abt 1769
14 Mar 1820 Rochester, Kent, England - 11 Jan 1887 photo
30 Nov 1781 Manchester, Lancashire, England - 29 May 1860
22 Dec 1816 Fitzhead, Somerset, England - 18 Jul 1880 photo
06 Oct 1773 Norwich, Norfolk, England - Oct 1808
28 Dec 1836 Bombay, India - 10 Jan 1875
06 May 1830 - 26 Jan 1903
abt 1737 - bef 27 Feb 1805
05 May 1814 - 11 Sep 1891
abt 1765 County Dublin, Ireland - abt 14 Mar 1855
30 Sep 1784 Lambourn, Berkshire, England - 16 Jun 1836
abt 25 Mar 1824 Calcutta, India - 06 Oct 1857
20 Oct 1747 - 31 Aug 1806
08 Aug 1782 Surrey, England - 08 Sep 1828
abt 1690 London, England - Nov 1744
07 Sep 1825 Kensington, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom - 15 Aug 1900
28 Nov 1779 Kensington, London, England - 11 Mar 1860
abt 1560 Gosberton, Lincolnshire, England - 01 Sep 1621
- 1810
abt 1680 Kent, England - 08 Oct 1735
- Apr 1800
1764 Falmouth, Cornwall, England - 08 Sep 1828 photo
26 May 1793 Essex, England - 01 Oct 1860 photo
03 Nov 1789 St Marylebone, Middlesex, England - 21 Apr 1853 photo
12 Nov 1816 Bengal, India - 17 Nov 1900
01 Jan 1818 Meerut, Bengal. India. - 07 Jan 1900
abt Jun 1781 Londonderry, Ireland - 08 Apr 1865
26 Dec 1800 Westminster, Middlesex, England - 1827
28 Oct 1802 East Stonehouse, Devon, England - 24 Mar 1851
24 Dec 1828 Nellore, Madras, India - 09 May 1906
24 Sep 1838 Madras Presidency, India - 1898
24 Oct 1833 Madras Presidency, India - 13 Jul 1884

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19 Aug 1827 Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom - 28 Mar 1902
13 Feb 1826 - 18 Jan 1875
26 Jun 1816 Madras Presidency, India - 14 Jul 1885
04 Apr 1783 Cockenzie, Tranent, East Lothian, Scotland - 1857
31 Jul 1817 Madras Presidency, India - 06 Feb 1870
03 Jan 1830 Madras Presidency, India - 23 Mar 1901
23 Jul 1822 Madras Presidency, India - 04 May 1888
abt 1644 Āgra, Uttar Pradesh, India - abt 1720
30 Jun 1731 Fenny Park, Tiverton, Devon, England - 01 Mar 1801 photo
1748 - 12 Dec 1788 photo
05 Jul 1750 Southend, Kintyre, Argyll, Scotland - 18 Aug 1796
14 Jan 1788 Edinburgh Parish, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland - 27 Nov 1819
25 Jun 1756 Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland - 04 May 1817
21 Sep 1790 Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland - 21 Nov 1875

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18 Jul 1851
17 Sep 1828 Madras, Madras, India - 15 Dec 1901 photo
25 Oct 1804 Frettenham, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom - 04 Sep 1888 photo
21 Jun 1832 India - 28 Mar 1914 photo
02 Nov 1745 India - abt 1815
26 Nov 1800 Deptford, Kent, England - 10 Mar 1843
18 Oct 1552 North Kilworth, Leicestershire, England - 14 Apr 1605
26 Aug 1828 Edinburgh, Edinburghshire, Scotland, United Kingdom - 14 Oct 1918
08 Oct 1775 Portmoak, Kinross-shire, Scotland - 14 Jan 1799
10 Jan 1578 London, Middlesex, England - 11 Nov 1641 photo
29 Sep 1725 Styche Hall, Market Say, Market Drayton, Shropshire, England - 22 Nov 1774 photo
08 Jan 1825 Edinburgh, Edinburghshire, Scotland, United Kingdom - 10 Jul 1893
31 Jan 1818 - 07 Jul 1866
18 Feb 1755 - 06 Jan 1837
abt 1797 Linkinhorne, Cornwall, England - abt 09 Sep 1821
1788 Linkinhorne, Cornwall, England - abt 14 Jun 1822
07 Aug 1810 Surat, Gujarat, India - 08 Feb 1863
26 Nov 1771 Surrey, England - 10 Dec 1843
30 Nov 1786 Calcutta, India - 24 Sep 1861
30 Aug 1809 Calcutta, India - 17 Feb 1895
28 Apr 1828 Secunderabad, Madras, India - 02 Feb 1879
29 May 1807 Calcutta, Bengal, India - 09 Sep 1857 photo
abt 1726 Ash-Hill, Killmallock, Ireland - 28 Apr 1783 photo
16 May 1864 Marsala, Sicily - 24 Mar 1891
abt 1780 Scotland - 23 Nov 1840
abt 1811 Bengal, British India - 15 Sep 1860 photo
21 Jul 1807 Latton, Essex, England - 07 Dec 1887 photo
05 Jul 1810 Turriff, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, United Kingdom - 24 May 1856
abt 1765 - abt 1814

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07 Sep 1840 Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom - 24 Dec 1926
10 Jun 1794 Stoke Damerel, Devon, England - 02 Sep 1838
20 Jun 1748 Shoreditch, Middlesex, England - 25 Mar 1827 photo
25 Dec 1768 England - 13 Apr 1828
25 Sep 1742 Lisbon, Portugal - 30 Oct 1803
abt 1795 St George Hanover Square, Middlesex, England - 24 Jan 1873
17 Dec 1800 St George Hanover Square, Middlesex, England - 10 Sep 1867
1760 Henbury, Gloucestershire, England - 1827
1605 England - 1672
abt 1573 London, England - 1647
1601 St Mary Colechurch, London, England - 1650
02 Apr 1773 London, England - 25 May 1852
bef 19 Oct 1752 Dalmeny, Linlithgowshire, Scotland - 22 Aug 1792
18 Nov 1797 Canonbury, London, England - 11 Jun 1873

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03 Jul 1821 Berhampur, Bengal, India photo
27 Apr 1845 Aligarh, India - 14 Jan 1906 photo
06 Dec 1765 London, England - 04 May 1841
06 Oct 1779 Dumbarton, Dunbartonshire, Scotland - 20 Nov 1859
abt 1818 Wales, United Kingdom - 05 Sep 1852
04 Sep 1810 Scotland, United Kingdom - 19 Apr 1863
bef 25 Apr 1578 Salisbury, Wiltshire, England - abt 1624

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abt 1776 Fortrose, Ross and Cromarty, Scotland - 28 Oct 1804
26 Aug 1766 Nairn, Nairnshire, Scotland - 18 Dec 1847
14 Oct 1776 London, England - 16 Mar 1830
30 Jul 1812 - 08 Nov 1864
abt 1700 - aft 27 Dec 1769
15 Mar 1871 51 High Street Bloomsbury London. - 16 Dec 1955 photo
1834 Beckington, Somerset, England - 21 Jun 1914 photo
14 Sep 1671 Buckinghamshire, England - 11 Sep 1726
16 Jan 1773 Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland - 06 Jun 1831

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1814 Hereford, Herefordshire, England - 26 Mar 1895
18 Mar 1785 Bodmin, Cornwall, England - 12 May 1853 photo
20 May 1804 Bishopstoke, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom - 03 Jan 1890
21 Nov 1802 London, England - Oct 1857 photo
19 May 1818 Milan, Città Metropolitana di Milano, Lombardia, Italy - 12 Jan 1908
- 05 Sep 1857 photo
16 Apr 1746 Aldourie, Inverness-shire, Scotland - 31 Oct 1823 photo
abt 1750 - 23 Jun 1830

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abt 09 Nov 1709 Forfar, Forfarshire, Scotland - 26 Mar 1781 photo
19 Aug 1794 Bethnal Green, Middlesex, England - 15 Mar 1891
26 Mar 1818 Falloden, Northumberland, England - 15 May 1878 photo
bef 24 Jan 1786 Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, England - 13 Nov 1831
29 May 1800 - bef 19 Jan 1834

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abt 1550 Rodborough, Gloucestershire, England - 09 Jan 1612 photo
10 Jul 1792 Gladsmuir, Haddingtonshire, Scotland - 08 Nov 1831
09 Nov 1840 Little Hinton, Wiltshire, England - 27 Dec 1918
abt 1805 West Bengal, India - 13 Feb 1862
12 Jan 1855 Hourah, West Bengal, India - 12 Dec 1930
09 Nov 1832 St Peter Port, Guernsey - 20 Jul 1861
10 Apr 1808 Madras, Madras, India - 07 Oct 1871 photo
31 Aug 1770 Woodford, Wiltshire, England - 12 Dec 1832
abt Nov 1831 Saint Peter Port, Guernsey - 09 Feb 1906
12 Mar 1765 Woodford, Wiltshire, England - 09 Apr 1828
27 Mar 1811 Reading, Berkshire - 06 Apr 1860
abt 30 Jan 1768 Woodford, Wiltshire, England - 14 Dec 1821
31 Dec 1801 Monkleigh, Devon, England, United Kingdom
abt 1527 Coxwold, Yorkshire, England - bef 23 Jan 1604 photo
1786 St Veep, Cornwall, England - 30 Mar 1822
abt 02 Jan 1652 Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England - 25 Jan 1733
21 Jan 1656 Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England - 18 Nov 1708
26 Apr 1862 Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom - 23 Oct 1929
08 Nov 1838 Portnashangan, County Westmeath, Ireland - 13 Jun 1880
abt 1840 Portnashangan, County Westmeath, Ireland - 28 May 1916
1612 London, England - 1675
abt 29 Sep 1766 Stone Hall, County Clare, Ireland - 26 Mar 1833 photo
abt 1820 Whitchurch, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom - 17 Jul 1891
1709 London, England - 23 Aug 1751
abt 1544 Oxted, Surrey, England - 1615
22 Jun 1907 Craigmore, Wicklow, Ireland - 06 Apr 1981
abt 12 Sep 1575 Tamworth, Staffordshire, England - 1611 photo
abt 1605 London, England - 1648
1772 - 08 Sep 1830
abt 1810 India photo

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09 Mar 1777 Charleston, South Carolina, United States - 31 May 1865
30 Apr 1744 Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland - 21 Aug 1820
05 Aug 1820 England, United Kingdom - 09 Mar 1894 photo
08 Feb 1786 Drumoak, Aberdeen, Scotland - 16 Dec 1855
14 May 1813 Edinburgh Parish, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland. - 10 Aug 1882

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abt 1753 - 24 Aug 1807
14 Sep 1800 Hall Place, Bexley, Kent, England - 13 May 1877 photo
bef 16 Dec 1804 Sittingbourne, Kent, England - 15 Sep 1844
08 Jun 1806 Stevenage, Hertfordshire, England - 11 May 1857
abt 1822 Bengal, India - 02 Oct 1908 photo
28 Dec 1786 Saint Peter Port, Guernsey - Jul 1831
21 May 1820 Fertabgurh, Bengal, India - 26 Nov 1850
1683 St Katherine by the Tower, Middlesex, England - 06 Jan 1738
bef 1592 London, England - 1634

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03 Mar 1735 - 1796
31 May 1806 Inverness, Inverness-shire, Scotland - 12 Dec 1832 photo
17 Apr 1794 Inverness, Inverness-shire, Scotland, - 11 Sep 1821 photo
bef 10 Mar 1800 Putney, Surrey, England - abt 10 Jan 1862

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15 Dec 1808 - 17 Aug 1881
bef 03 Jan 1808 Broad Clist Manor, Devon, England, United Kingdom - 24 Aug 1879
bef 02 May 1803 Broad Clist Manor, Devon, England, United Kingdom - 20 Sep 1873
20 Dec 1690 Northallerton, Yorkshire, England - 06 Oct 1753
1756 - 1784
17 Jan 1760 - abt 1782
06 Mar 1697 Hereford, Herefordshire, England - 10 Jan 1775 photo
04 Jul 1830 Ockley, Surrey, England - 01 Dec 1903
23 Sep 1789 Fort Marlborough, Bencoolen, Sumatra - 23 May 1815 photo
09 Sep 1807 Fort William, Bengal, India - 19 Aug 1874 photo
abt 1770 - 18 Mar 1814 photo
03 Mar 1800 Weymouth, Dorset, England - abt 28 Sep 1883
 
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