Papers of Maj William Martin Cubitt, Indian Army 1884, Indian Political Service 1888-1909; practised as an advocate in Calcutta 1911-16 and as a solicitor in London 1917-29
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Papers of Maj William Martin Cubitt (1864-1932), Indian Army 1884, Indian Political Service 1888-1909, who practised as an advocate in Calcutta 1911-16 and as a solicitor in London 1917-29, chiefly comprising legal cases from India on appeal to the Privy Council.
Letters and papers concerning money lent and insurance underwritten by Brabazon Ellis (1723-80) for the voyage of the East Indiaman `Calcutta' with a cargo of specie from Calcutta to China.
Papers of Sir Alexander Colin Burlington Symon (1902-74), India Office 1921, Commonwealth Relations Office 1947-61, British Deputy High Commissioner in India 1946-49, and High Commissioner in Pakistan 1954-61; and of his wife Doris (Dodo) Olive, Lady Symon
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Symon Collection: papers of Sir Alexander Colin Burlington Symon (1902-74), India Office 1921, Commonwealth Relations Office 1947-61, British Deputy High Commissioner in India 1946-49, and High Commissioner in Pakistan 1954-61; and of his wife Doris (Dodo) Olive, Lady Symon.
Three letters to Admiral Sir William Cornwallis (1744-1819), Royal Navy 1755-1806, C-in-C, East Indies Squadron 1789-94, about naval affairs relating to Prince of Wales Island, the Nicobar Islands and Kedah.
Copies of parliamentary statements, dated 1788/89, 1793, 1794, and 1799-1801, on the financial affairs of the East India Company, by Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville (1742-1811), Member 1784 and President 1793-1801 of the Board of Control. (See IOR Home Miscellaneous 376 for a fuller version o...
Copies of correspondence and papers concerning the East India Company's administrative and financial affairs, its Indian establishments and debts, some marked `for the use of Mr Grenville', i.e. William Wyndham Grenville, Baron Grenville (1759-1834), British statesman; Member 1785, and President 1790-93, of the Board of Control. (See also IOR Home Miscellaneous 347-48, 351-52, and 370).
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Copies of correspondence and papers concerning the East India Company's administrative and financial affairs, its Indian establishments and debts, some marked `for the use of Mr Grenville', i.e. William Wyndham Grenville, Baron Grenville (1759-1834), British statesman; Member 1785, and President ...
Volume containing calculations respecting the possible application of the East India Company's revenue, and in particular projecting the amount of the revenue there might be by 1 May 1808.
Papers of Sir Hugh Dow, Indian Civil Service 1910-47, Governor of Sind 1941-46, Governor of Bihar 1946-47
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Dow Collection: papers of Sir Hugh Dow (1886-1978), Indian Civil Service, Bombay and Sind 1910-47, including papers as Governor of Sind 1941-46, Governor of Bihar 1946-47, British Consul-General in Jerusalem 1948-51, and Chairman, Royal Commission on East Africa 1952-54; also some papers relating...
Volume containing poems, a diary, sketches and a play (`Salt Water Love' 1836), by John William Maillardet (1806-63), Madras Medical Service 1829-60, some of which were written during Maillardet's service in Penang 1832-37.