The oldest part of the building was erected by the East India Company in 1725 on the site of: (a) House in Leadenhall Street and tenement in Lime Street adjoining its back gate, formerly occupied by Sir Henry Garway and by Thomas Atkins, Alderman., purchased in 1709 from th...
East India House, the London headquarters of the East India Company in Leadenhall Street, was described thus in 1734: "The East India House, on the South Side of the Street, stands where Sir William Craven's House formerly was; this House was rebuilt in the Year 1726, the F...
[1] William, Earl of Craven [2] Ralph Marshall of St-Giles-in-the-Fields Middlesex, gentleman [3] East India Company [4] Sir John Lawrence of London, Knight and Alderman, and Richard Hutchinson of London, Esquire Inventory annexed