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2. List of governors of Bombay Presidency - Wikipedia

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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]

3. John Colville, 1st Baron Clydesmuir - Wikipedia

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   Colville left Parliament in 1943 to become Governor of Bombay, a post he held until January 1948. He acted as Viceroy and Governor-General of India, in 1945, 1946 and 1947. On his return from India he was raised to the peerage as Baron Clydesmuir, of Braidwood in the County of Lanarkshire.

4. Category:Governors of Bombay - Wikipedia

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5. Sir John Child, 1st Baronet - Wikipedia

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   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.

6. Richard Keigwin (colonial administrator) - Wikipedia

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   Captain Richard Keigwin (died 21 June 1690) was a rebel governor of Bombay (now Mumbai) in 1683–84 during the East India Company's charter over Bombay. He was never recognized in this position by the Company. He acted as governor of Bombay with the support of the militia, whose salaries had been cut by the Governor, Joshua Child. [1]

7. William Hornby (governor) - Wikipedia

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   An intriguing dead-end of information is the statement attributed to John Murray, that "The Hornby diamond, brought from the East Indies by the Hon. William Hornby, Governor of Bombay, in 1775, weighs 36 carats [7.2 g], and is now, I believe, the property of the Shah of Persia."

8. Bartholomew Harris - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

9. Lists of Indian governors - Wikipedia

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   List of governors of Bihar; List of governors of Bombay (1948–1960), also pre-independence; List of governors of Chhattisgarh; List of governors of Goa; List of governors of Gujarat; List of governors of Haryana; List of governors of Himachal Pradesh; List of governors of Jammu and Kashmir (1965–2019) List of governors of Jharkhand; List of ...