People associated with the British East India Company

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 102. Chapters: Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive, Warren Hastings, List of governors of Penang, Richard Levett, Job Charnock, Christopher Newport, Douglas Hamilton, George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney, George Pigot, 1st Baron Pigot, Thomas C. Jerdon, Nathaniel Dance, James Atkinson, Alexander Duff, Nicolay, John Prinsep, Charles Metcalfe, 1st Baron Metcalfe, Robert Palk, John Cleland, Nathaniel Higginson, Joseph Collett, William Farquhar, Governors of Singapore, John Borthwick Gilchrist, Thomas Pitt, Edward Ryan, Edward Harrison, Nicholas Woodcock, Samuel Pepys Cockerell, Robert Fotherby, Charles Gascoigne, William Gyfford, Charles Yorke, Coja Petrus Uscan, John Cradock, 1st Baron Howden, Streynsham Master, Francis Light, Richard Paternoster, Avadhanum Paupiah, Walter Landor Dickens, Francis Day of Madras, James Lancaster, Jean Chardin, Edward Misselden, James Achilles Kirkpatrick, Sir Charles Rouse-Boughton, 9th Baronet, Henry Melvill, Benjamin Robins, George Malcolm, John Cartier, William Fraser, John Weddell, Edward Winter, William Hamilton, Ashley Eden, Thomas Horsfield, John Zephaniah Holwell, Pachaiyappa Mudaliar, Charles Eyre, Charles Webb Le Bas, Sir Francis Sykes, 1st Baronet, Sir Harford Jones-Brydges, 1st Baronet, John Charles Mason, Nathaniel Courthope, William Petrie, Thomas Greenhill, Francis Hastings of Madras, Aaron Baker, Antoine Polier, Andrew Cogan, George Morton Pitt, Matthew Digby Wyatt, Benjamin Guy Babington, Gulston Addison, William John Huggins, Arthur Campbell, Joseph Batten, John Walsh, William Bolts, Robert Gregory, John Saris, Arthur William Devis, Francis H. Roberts, Sir John Child, 1st Baronet, Thomas Smythe, Richard Wyche, Charles Grenville Mansel, Thomas Myddelton, Thomas Ivie, Robert Cowan, Thomas Chambers, Edmund Montague, William Linley, Richard Jupp, Nathaniel Elwick, William Keeling, Roger Drake, Sir George Wombwell, 1st Baronet, Mirza Muhammed Ibrahim, Edward Littleton, Michael Topping, Hugh Fraser, Thomas Otho Travers, John Beard, William Fytche, Richard Cocks, John Deane, Robert Geffrye, Robert Hedges, Ghulam Husain Salim, Samuel Flake, Claude Russell, Henry Frankland, John Stackhouse, Henry Fraser, Thomas Broddyll, John Forster, Edward Stephenson, John Russell, Adam Dawson, Francis Ellis, Anthony Weltden. Excerpt: Major-General Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive, KB (29 September 1725 - 22 November 1774), also known as Clive of India, was a British officer who established the military and political supremacy of the East India Company in Bengal. He is credited with securing India, and the wealth that followed, for the British crown. Together with Warren Hastings he was one of the key figures in the creation of British India. Robert Clive was born at Styche, the Clive family estate, near Market Drayton in Shropshire. To supplement the £500 which the family estate earned every year, his father practised law. The Clives, or Clyves, were one of the oldest families in the county of Shropshire. They held the manor of that name in the reign of Henry II. Members of the family include an Irish chancellor of the exchequer under Henry VIII, and a member of the Long Parliament. Robert's father for many years represented Montgomeryshire in parliament. His mother was the daughter of Nathaniel Gaskell of Manchester. Robert was their eldest son of thirteen children; he had seven sisters and five brothers. As a boy, Clive is reputed to have climbed the tower of St Mary's Parish Church in Market ...