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1607 in literature

September 5Hamlet is performed aboard the East India Company ship Red Dragon, under the command of Capt. William Keeling, anchored off the coast of Sierra Leone, the first known performance of a Shakespeare play outside England in English, and the first by amateurs.

Australian Agricultural Company

Amongst the principal members of this company were the Attorney-General and the Solicitor-General of England, 28 Members of Parliament, including Mr. Brougham, and Mr. Joseph Hume, the Governor, Deputy Governor and eight of the directors of the Bank of England; the Chairman and Deputy-Chairman and five directors of the British East India Company, besides many other eminent bankers and merchants of England.

Francis Lathom

Francis Lathom was born on the 14 July 1774, either in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, where his father, Henry, conducted business for the East India Company and returning to England around 1777, settling near Norwich, or he was born in Norwich and may have been the illegitimate son of an English peer.

Hendrik Brouwer

Early in 1632, he was part of a delegation sent to London to solve trade disagreements between the English and Dutch East India companies.

Martin Purwa

It is named after Claude Martin, the eighteenth-century French adventurer and philanthropist, who served both the East India Company and the Nawab Asaf-Ud-Dowlah of Oudh.

Regional Institute of Ophthalmology and Government Ophthalmic Hospital, Chennai

In 1639, Andrew Cogan, chief of the Honourable East India Company negotiated with the local Governor of the Emperor of Vijayanagar, and bought a piece of land north of the Portuguese town, Santhome, to establish an office.

Santa Cruz de Nuca

Meares' vision required a loosening of the monopolistic power of the East India Company and the South Sea Company, which between them controlled all British trade in the Pacific.

Scinde Medal

The Scinde Medal was authorised on 22 September 1843 and issued to those soldiers of the Honourable East India Company and of the 22nd Regiment of Foot who participated in Major General Sir Charles Napier's campaign against the Amirs of Sindh, Mir Rustam Khan Talpur, Mir Nasir Khan Talpur and Mir Sher Muhammad Talpur.

Seaman's Hospital

Seaman's Hospital was originally opened by Dr Young, a surgeon of the Honourable East India Company in 1843 during the First Opium War.

Sharpe's Peril

They encounter a baggage train heading to Madras, made up of soldiers from the King's and the East India Company's armies, commanded by the young Ensign Beauclere (Luke Ward-Wilkinson), engineer Major Tredinnick (David Robb), and Subedar Pillai (Rajesh Khattar).

White mutiny

The White Mutiny was the unrest that occurred at the dissolution of the "European Forces" of the British Honourable East India Company in India during the mid-19th century in the wake of the Indian Rebellion of 1857.


see also

George Arbuthnot

George Bingham Arbuthnot (1803–1867), Major-General in the Honourable East India Company

Haileybury

East India Company College, Haileybury (1806–1858) was the training establishment for the Honourable East India Company