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Sir John Child, Baronet

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Feb. 4, 1690, Bombay [now Mumbai], India
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Sir John Child, Baronet (died Feb. 4, 1690, Bombay [now Mumbai], India) was the first person to be placed in control of all the British East India Company’s trading establishments in India. He served there as deputy governor of Bombay (Mumbai; 1679–81) and president of Surat (1682–90). He was made a baronet in 1684. Apparently, Child was sent to India as a youth to live with an uncle employed there by the company. In 1672 he married a daughter of Captain John Shaxton, who was the commander of the British garrison at Bombay. Two years later he was implicated in ...(100 of 194 words)

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