APPENDIX XL—CONTINUED.
795
Names.
AssumedCharge of Office.
Names.
AssumedCharge of Office.
Aaron Baker, 1
— 1652
Nicholas Morse, 5 .
17 Jan. 1744
Sir Thomas Chamber,
— 1659
John Hinde, 6 .
Sir Edward Winter,
— 1661
Charles Floyer, 7
16 April 1747
George Foxcroft, 2 .
Sir William Langhorn,
22 Aug. 1668
Thomas Saunders, 8 .George (afterwards Lord)
19 Sept. 1750
Bart.,.
Streynsham Master.
— 1670
Pigot,
14 Jan. 1755
27 Jan. 1678
Robert Palk, .
14 Nov. 1763
William Gyfford, 3 .
3 Tulv 1681
Charles Bourchier, .
25 Jan. 1767
ElihuYale, 4 .
25 July 1687
Josias Du Pre,
31 Jan. 1770
Nathaniel Higginson,
30 Oct. 1692
Alexander Wynch, .
2 Feb. 1773
Thomas Pitt, .
7 Tulv 1608
Lord Pigot, 9 .
n Dec. 1775
Gulston Addison,
Edmund Montague, act-
18 Sept. 1709
John Whitehill, acting,
23 Aug. 177631 Aug. 1777
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17 Oct. 1709
Sir Thomas Rumbold, Bt.,
8 Feb. 1778
William Eraser, acting,
3 Nov. 170Q
John Whitehill,™ acting,
6 April xjZo
11 July 1711
Charles Smith, acting,
8 Nov. 1780
Joseph Collett,
8 Jan. 1717
Lord Macartney,Alexander Davidson,
22 June 1781
mg, ....
Nathaniel Elwick, .
18 Jan. 1720
acting,
18 June 1785
15 Oct. 1721 ,
*Maj.-Gen. Sir Archibald
James Macrae,
George Morton Pitt,
rSjan. 1725
Campbell,
6 April 1786
14 May 1730
John Holland, acting, .
7 Feb. 1789
Richard Benyon,
23 Jan. 1735 |
Edward Holland, actg.,
13 Feb. 1790
1 Mr. Baker was at first ‘Agent' for the Settlement of Madras, which was under thejurisdiction of the Presidency of Bantam in Java , from its foundation in 1639 till itwas itself created a Presidency in 1653. In 1658, the Settlements in Bengal were sub-ordinated to Madras , and so remained until 1681.
2 Three months after his arrival with a commission to succeed Sir E. Winter, Mr.Foxcroft was, on a charge of disloyalty, put into confinement by Sir E. Winter, whoresumed office, and retained it until 22nd August 1668, when Mr. Foxcroft was releasedand reinstated by Commissioners from England.
3 By the Company’s commission, dated 14th November 1681, received 17th July 1682,the Bengal Agency was made a Government ' without any subordination to Fort St.George. ’
4 Mr. Yale also acted during Mr. Gyfford’s absence in Bengal from 8th August 1684to 26th January 1685.
5 Madras having been captured by the French on the 10th September 1746, the govern-ment of the Settlement devolved on Mr. John Hinde, the Deputy-Governor of Fort St.David.
6 Mr. Hinde died at Fort St. David on the 14th April 1747, previous to the receipt ofthe Court of Directors’ despatch-,of 24th January 1747, creating Fort St. David the HeadSettlement, and appointing Mr. Hinde President and Governor.
^ The Court's despatch ordering Mr, Floyer’s dismissal from the service was receivedat Fort St. David on the 6th July 1750.
8 The seat of government was re-established at Madras on the 5th April 1752, fouryears after its restoration to the English by the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle.
9 Governor for second time. By order of Mr. George Stratton and the majority of theCouncil, he was placed under arrest, and detained at St. Thomas’s Mount on the 24thAugust 1776. He was allowed to return to the Madras Garden House on the 28th Aprilfor change of air, and died there on 10th May 1777.
10 Acting Governor second time. Suspended by the Governor-General and Councilunder Section IX. of the Regulating Act.
* Also Commander-in-Chief of the Presidency.