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British East India Company

COMPANY

Granted its Royal Charter in 1600, dissolved in 1858. Was also known as Honourable East India Company, and East India Trading Company.

Industry:
Transport

Corporate headquarters:
London, England

EXECUTIVES

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Elihu Yale
Philanthropist
5-Apr-1649 8-Jul-1721 Namesake of Yale University

EMPLOYMENT

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
William Baffin
Explorer
c. 1584 23-Jan-1622 Tried to find North-West Passage
George Everest
Explorer
4-Jul-1790 1-Dec-1866 Namesake of Mt. Everest
Oliver Goldsmith
Author
10-Nov-1730 4-Apr-1774 The Vicar of Wakefield
Richard Hakluyt
Author
c. 1552 23-Nov-1616 Voiages and Discoveries of the English nation
Edmund Halley
Astronomer
8-Nov-1656 14-Jan-1742 Predicted return of Halley's Comet
Sir Henry Irving
Actor
6-Feb-1838 13-Oct-1905 English actor, Theater manager
Robert Jenkins
Business
fl. 1731-45 fl. 1731-45 War of Jenkins' Ear
Charles Lamb
Author
10-Feb-1775 27-Dec-1834 Essays of Elia
Sir Stamford Raffles
Government
6-Jul-1781 5-Jul-1826 Founder of Singapore
Matthew Webb
Swimmer
18-Jan-1848 24-Jul-1883 First to swim the English Channel

EXTRANEOUS

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Thomas Love Peacock
Novelist
18-Oct-1785 23-Jan-1866 Nightmare Abbey


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