Sir James Rivett-Carnac, 1st Baronet (11 November 1784 – 28 January 1846) was an Indian-born British statesman who served as the Governor of the Bombay Presidency of British India from 1838 to 1841, during the period of Company Rule.[1] 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).[2]
Born in Bombay in 1784,[3] Carnac served the East India Company in India from 1801[4] and was a director of the company for various periods between 1827 and 1838.[5][6]
He was made a baronet in 1836 and elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in May 1838.[7][8]
Rivett-Carnac was Member of Parliament (MP) for Sandwich from 1837 to 1839.Template:Citation needed He succeeded Robert Grant as Governor of Bombay Presidency after the latter's death on 9 July 1838.[9]
He died on 28 January 1846 in Rockcliffe, near Lymington, Hampshire.[8] In 1815 he had married Anna-Maria, the eldest daughter of William Ricardes of Penglais.[10]
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.Template:Citation needed
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- ↑ Colonial Collecting and Display: Encounters with Material Culture from the Andaman and Nicobar Islands{{#if:Wintle|, Wintle}. Berghahn Books(2013). ISBN 978-0-85745-942-8
- ↑ Obituary: Sir Miles Rivett-Carnac, Bt. The Daily Telegraph(6 October 2009).
- ↑ Terence R. Blackburn, Justice for the Raja of Sattara? (APH Publishing, 2007) p. 139
- ↑ The Wellesley Papers: The Life and Correspondence of Richard Colley Wellesley, Marquess Wellesley, 1760-1842 vol 2 (H. Jenkins, 1914) p. 316
- ↑ 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
- ↑ 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
- ↑ Template:London Gazette
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Library and Archive Catalogue. Royal Society.
- ↑ The Satara Raj, 1818-1848: A Study in History, Administration, and Culture{{#if:Kulkarni|, Kulkarni}. Mittal Publications(1995). ISBN 978-8-17099-581-4
- ↑ The Assembled Commons or Parliamentary Biographer{{#if:Member of the|, Member of the}
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