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Sir John Child, Baronet: Quick Facts

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Died February 4, 1690 • Mumbai • India
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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William Adams
English navigator
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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Sir Josiah Child, 1st Baronet
British merchant
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Job Charnock
British official
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Claudius James Rich
British businessman
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Sir Thomas Smythe
British entrepreneur
Thomas Pitt, detail of a print after an oil painting by Sir Godfrey Kneller
Thomas Pitt
British merchant
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Sir James Lancaster
English merchant
Mangal Pandey
Mangal Pandey
Indian soldier
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Sir Eyre Coote
British soldier
George Pigot, Baron Pigot, oil painting by George Willison, 1777; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
George Pigot, Baron Pigot
British colonial official
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William Marsden
British historian and linguist
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Richard Keigwin
British officer
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Cedric Webster Hardwicke
English actor
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Sydney Greenstreet
British actor
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Joseph Severn
artist
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Enoch Wood
English potter