Letter No. 97: Rawson Hart Boddam, Robert Sparks and Richard Church, Public Department at Bombay Castle, to Edward Galley, Resident at Bushire

Content

This letter acknowledges the receipt of Edward Galley's letter of 10 December 1786, which was delivered by the Scorpion Snow on 5 January 1787. The letter reports several changes to the structure of the Presidency The name given to each of the three divisions of the territory of the East India Company, and later the British Raj, on the Indian subcontinent. and accepts Galley's resignation. The letter includes the following enclosures:

• Copies of extracts from the Honourable Company's commands (dated 7 April 1786 and received 28 October 1786 from Fort St George);
• Copies of additional letters from 28 April 1786, which include a copy of the commission appointing Rawson Hart Boddam both as President and Governor of Bombay and as Commander-in-Chief of the forces under his Presidency The name given to each of the three divisions of the territory of the East India Company, and later the British Raj, on the Indian subcontinent. , and a copy of a document revoking an earlier commission which had appointed Brigadier General Lawrence Nilson as Commander-in-Chief of the Presidency The name given to each of the three divisions of the territory of the East India Company, and later the British Raj, on the Indian subcontinent. 's forces.

Of these enclosures, only the extracts from the Company's commands are present, and they appear to be incomplete.

Extent and format

3 folios

It is part of

Vol 4 Letters inward

138 images

Ref: IOR/R/15/1/4

Written in

English in Latin script

Type

Letter

Access & Reference

Original held at

British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity.

Access conditions

Unrestricted

Archive reference

IOR/R/15/1/4, ff 58v-60

History of this record

Date(s)

28 Jan 1787 (CE, Gregorian)

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Letter No. 97: Rawson Hart Boddam, Robert Sparks and Richard Church, Public Department at Bombay Castle, to Edward Galley, Resident at Bushire, British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, IOR/R/15/1/4, ff 58v-60, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100023598787.0x000053> [accessed 20 February 2025]

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