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| Date transcribed | 2000-00-00 | | Transcribed by | Steve van Dulken |
| | Surname | Colebrooke | | | First names | George | | | Rank/ occupation | Chairman (& MP & Baronet) | | | Unit | EIC | | | Death date | 5 Aug 1809 | | | Place of death | Bath Easton  | | | Source | Gentleman's Magazine | | | Date | Aug 1809 | | | Page number | 787 | | | Detail | At Bath-Easton, aged 80, Sir George Colebrooke, bart. He was born at Chilham June 14, 1729; married, July 23, 1754, Mary, only daugh. amd heiress of Patrick Guynor, esq. of Antigua, by Mary Linch, his wife, by whom he had four sons and three daughters, whereof two daughters and two sons are living... [pages 787-788 give much detail on his two living sons, James-Edward, born July 7, 1765, judge of appeals at Moorshedabad, & previously Persian translator, and Henry-Thomas, born June 15, 1765, who is judge at Mirzapoor and an author on law and on Sanskrit. Sir George was an M.P. and Deputy Chairman of the EIC, 1768, and elected Chairman in 1769, 1771 and 1772; he tried to preserve newly acquired territories from being annexed by the Crown, and to preserve the independence of the Company]. |
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