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Died	January 10, 1693 • Kolkata • India
Founder	Kolkata

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British merchant

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Sir Thomas Smythe

British entrepreneur

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Robert Clive

Robert Clive

British colonial administrator

Warren Hastings, oil painting by Tilly Kettle; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.

Warren Hastings

British colonial administrator

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Jony Ive

British designer and executive

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Terence Conran

British designer and entrepreneur

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English navigator

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Richard Branson

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Simon Cowell

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William Richard Morris, Viscount Nuffield

British industrialist

Stringer Lawrence, oil painting by Thomas Gainsborough; in the National Portrait Gallery, London

Stringer Lawrence

British officer

Charles T. Metcalfe

Charles T. Metcalfe

British colonial official

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John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury

British banker, politician, and naturalist

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John Robert Russell, 13th duke of Bedford

British noble

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Sir John Child, Baronet

British official

Thomas Pitt, detail of a print after an oil painting by Sir Godfrey Kneller

Thomas Pitt

British merchant

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William Crockford

English businessman

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Sir William Courteen

English merchant