James Rivett-Carnac
Sir James Rivett-Carnac, 1st Baronet (11 November 1784 – 28 January 1846) was the Governor of the Bombay Presidency of British India from 1838 to 1841, during the period of Company Rule.[1] His family name came about in 1801, when his father was made testamentary by his brother-in-law General John Carnac, husband of Elizabeth Rivett (1751–1780).[citation needed]
Born in Bombay in 1784,[2] Carnac served the East India Company in India from 1801[3] and was a director of the Company for various periods between 1827 and 1838.[4][5]
He was made a baronet in 1836 and elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in May 1838.[6][7]
Rivett-Carnac was Member of Parliament (MP) for Sandwich from 1837 to 1839.[citation needed] He succeeded Robert Grant as Governor of Bombay Presidency after the latter's death on 9 July 1838.[8]
He died on 28 January 1846 in Rockcliffe, near Lymington, Hampshire [7] In 1815 he had married Anna-Maria, the eldest daughter of William Ricardes of Penglais.[9]
Rivett-Carnac is the ancestor of the Rivett-Carnac baronets, of whom the most well-known member today is the bag designer Lulu Guinness (born 1960), daughter of the ninth baronet.[citation needed]
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References
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- ^ Terence R. Blackburn, Justice for the Raja of Sattara? (APH Publishing, 2007) p. 139
- ^ The Wellesley Papers: The Life and Correspondence of Richard Colley Wellesley, Marquess Wellesley, 1760-1842 vol 2 (H. Jenkins, 1914) p. 316
- ^ C.H. & D. Philips, 'Alphabetical List of Directors of the East India Company from 1758 to 1858', in Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society October 1941
- ^ Charles Campbell Prinsep, Record of Services of the Honourable East India Company's Civil Servants in the Madras Presidency, from 1741 to 1858 (1885) p. xxii
- ^ "No. 19359". The London Gazette. 23 February 1836. p. 358.
- ^ a b "Library and Archive Catalogue". Royal Society. Retrieved 9 December 2017.
- ^ Kulkarni, Sumitra (1995). The Satara Raj, 1818-1848: A Study in History, Administration, and Culture. Mittal Publications. p. 27. ISBN 978-8-17099-581-4.
- ^ Member of the, Middle Temple. The Assembled Commons or Parliamentary Biographer. p. 49.
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