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'''Sir James Rivett-Carnac, 1st Baronet''' (11 November 1784 – 28 January 1846) was an [[India]]n-born British statesman who served as the [[List of governors of Bombay|Governor]] of the [[Bombay Presidency]] of [[British India]] from 1838 to 1841, during the period of [[Company Rule in India|Company Rule]].<ref>{{cite book |title=Colonial Collecting and Display: Encounters with Material Culture from the Andaman and Nicobar Islands |first=Claire |last=Wintle |publisher=Berghahn Books |year=2013 |isbn=978-0-85745-942-8 |page=77 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iWlFAAAAQBAJ}}</ref> His family name came about in 1801, when his father was made testamentary by his brother-in-law General [[John Carnac]], husband of Elizabeth Rivett (1751–1780).<ref>{{cite news |work=The Daily Telegraph |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/finance-obituaries/6266592/Sir-Miles-Rivett-Carnac-Bt.html |title=Obituary: Sir Miles Rivett-Carnac, Bt |date=6 October 2009 |accessdate=2021-04-05}}</ref><br />
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Born in [[Mumbai|Bombay]] in 1784,<ref>Terence R. Blackburn, ''Justice for the Raja of Sattara?'' (APH Publishing, 2007) p. 139</ref> Carnac served the [[East India Company]] in India from 1801<ref>''The Wellesley Papers: The Life and Correspondence of Richard Colley Wellesley, Marquess Wellesley, 1760-1842'' vol 2 (H. Jenkins, 1914) p. 316</ref> and was a [[East India Company directors|director]] of the company for various periods between 1827 and 1838.<ref>C.H. & D. Philips, 'Alphabetical List of Directors of the East India Company from 1758 to 1858', in ''Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society'' October 1941</ref><ref>Charles Campbell Prinsep, ''Record of Services of the Honourable East India Company's Civil Servants in the Madras Presidency, from 1741 to 1858'' (1885) p. xxii</ref><br />
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He was made a baronet in 1836 and elected a [[Fellow of the Royal Society]] in May 1838.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=19359 |date=23 February 1836 |page=358}}</ref><ref name= RS>{{cite web | url= https://collections.royalsociety.org/DServe.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Persons&dsqPos=1&dsqSearch=%28%28text%29%3D%27carnac%27%29| title = Library and Archive Catalogue|publisher= Royal Society|accessdate= 9 December 2017}}</ref><br />
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Rivett-Carnac was [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] (MP) for [[Sandwich (UK Parliament constituency)|Sandwich]] from 1837 to 1839.{{citation needed|date=September 2016}} He succeeded [[Robert Grant (MP)|Robert Grant]] as Governor of Bombay Presidency after the latter's death on 9 July 1838.<ref>{{cite book |title=The Satara Raj, 1818-1848: A Study in History, Administration, and Culture |first=Sumitra |last=Kulkarni |publisher=Mittal Publications |year=1995 |isbn=978-8-17099-581-4 |page=27 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SYOSHaZnBy8C&pg=PA27}}</ref><br />
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He died on 28 January 1846 in Rockcliffe, near [[Lymington]], Hampshire.<ref name = RS/> In 1815 he had married Anna-Maria, the eldest daughter of William Ricardes of Penglais.<ref>{{cite book|title= The Assembled Commons or Parliamentary Biographer|last= Member of the |first=Middle Temple|page=49}}</ref><br />
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Rivett-Carnac is the ancestor of the [[Rivett-Carnac baronets]]. The family includes the bag designer [[Lulu Guinness]] (born 1960), daughter of the ninth baronet.{{citation needed|date=September 2016}}<br />
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== See also ==<br />
*[[Sir Richard Temple, 1st Baronet]]<br />
*[[Richard Carnac Temple]]<br />
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