Stephen Law | |
|---|---|
| Governor of Bombay | |
| In office 7 April 1739 – 15 November 1742 | |
Stephen Law (1699 – 25 December 1787) was the Governor of Bombay from 7 April 1739 to 15 November 1742.
Law was born into a merchant family and became an East India Company writer in Bombay in 1715, graduating in 1720 to become a factor.
In 1739, he was appointed Governor. He was recalled in 1742 following accusations of excessive expenditure in protecting the settlement from the Marathas. He retired to Broxbourne Manor, Broxbourne, England and became a Director of the Company for 1746–49, 1751–54, and 1756.[1]
After his wife died in January 1785,[2] he moved to Goudhurst in Kent.[3][4]
Death
He died in 1787 at Bedgbury House, Kent, the home of his son-in-law. His daughter Stephana had married John Cartier, the ex-Governor of Bengal. His son, John Law, became the Archdeacon of Rochester.[5]
References
- ↑ "The Directors of the East India Company, 1754-1790" (PDF). James Gordon Parker. Retrieved 9 December 2017.
- ↑ Arthur Jones, ed., Hertfordshire 1731-1800 as recorded in the Gentleman's Magazine, 1993, p. 207
- ↑ Octavius Francis Christie, ed., The Diary of the Rev. William Jones, 1777-1821: Curate and Vicar of Broxbourne and the Hamlet of Hoddesdon, 1781-1821, 1929.
- ↑ Will of Stephen Law, Bedfordshire and Luton Archives and Records Service, Item Ref AD422.
- ↑ "Law, John (LW756J)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- "Previous Governors List". Governor of Maharashtra. Archived from the original on 6 February 2009. Retrieved 23 December 2008.
- "Colonial administrators and post-independence leaders in India (1616–2000)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- Great Britain India Office (1819). The India List and India Office List. Vol. I. Harrison. pp. 125–7. Retrieved 9 October 2008.
- Greater Bombay District Gazetteer. Maharashtra State Gazetteers. Vol. I. Government of Maharashtra. 1986. Retrieved 13 August 2008.