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Governors of Bombay and Madras Presidencies, who were appointed by the British Crown, were the most important officials after the Viceroy. [5] Bombay Castle was the official residence of the governor of Bombay until the 1770s, when it was moved to Parel; a century later, in 1883, it was moved to Malabar Hill. [6] [7]
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Governor of Maharashtra (4) Sri Prakasa (1890–1971) Uttar Pradesh: 1 May 1960 16 April 1962 1 year, 350 days Governor of Bombay State Rajendra Prasad (President) 5 P. Subbarayan (1889–1962) Madras: 17 April 1962 6 October 1962: 172 days Union Cabinet Minister for Transport and Communications – Justice H. K. Chainani Chief Justice of ...
Born in London, Child was sent as a child to his uncle, the chief of the factory at Rajapur. on 27 October 1681, he was appointed chief of the East India Company's affairs at Surat and Bombay, while at the same time his namesake, stated to be unrelated by the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Sir Josiah Child, was governor of the company at home.
History of the Bombay Sappers (1 C, 8 P) P. People from Bombay Presidency ... List of governors of Bombay Presidency; H. History of Bombay under British rule (1661 ...
Born in Bombay in 1784, [1] Carnac began nearly three decades of service with the East India Company in India in 1801 [2] and was a director of the Company for various periods between 1827 and 1838. [3] [4] [5] He succeeded Robert Grant as Governor of the Bombay Presidency in 1838, serving for three years in that role. [6]
Bartholomew Harris (died at Surat on 10 May 1694) was an English governor in India. After Sir John Child, 1st Baronet was appointed governor of Bombay in May 1687, Harris assumed the former office of Child as president of the English factory in Surat. After Child's death on 4 February 1690, Harris also assumed the Bombay presidency, even though ...
Bombay's population was around 10,000 people when Aungier assumed charge and had grown to 80,000 by the time of his death eight years later. The revenue too had grown from GBP 2,823 to GBP 9,254. During Aungier's governorship of Bombay the foundation stone of St. Thomas Church was laid. A silver chalice presented by Aungier to the Anglican ...