The Indian Seal Case Study: The Reunion
On 7 April 1978 Dr Nandy wrote to the 9th Baronet to introduce himself as the biographer of his ancestor, Cantoo Baboo, and the two families met the following month after a gap of 210 years. In a...
View ArticleAske Hall Case Study: East India Company Connections
East India Company Connections Although Lawrence Dundas was never a ‘servant’ of the East India Company, he was closely involved in its affairs. He bought considerable shares of East India Company...
View ArticleWarfield Park Case Study: A Country House of One’s Own
When returning to England, how did East India Company officials and their families marry the England they imagined to that they were greeted with? For the Walsh family, on their return home they...
View ArticleGeneral Patrick Duff of Carnousie, Banffshire
Figure 1. General Patrick Duff. 1790. George Romney. Source: A. Tayler and H. Tayler, The Book of the Duffs (Edinburgh, 1914). General Patrick Duff of Carnousie, Banffshire by Alistair Mutch Please...
View ArticleGeneral Duff Case Study: At home in India
At home in India Although Patrick made the arduous voyage between India and Britain five times, most of his adult life was spent in India. While on one return visit to Britain in 1774, he married his...
View Articlesezincote case study: the cockerell family
Figure 8: Portrait of Samuel Pepys Cockerell by George Dance. 1793 Graphite, with watercolour. Museum number 1898,0712.17. © The Trustees of the British Museum. The Cockerell Family Sezincote’s...
View ArticleMiddleton Hall Case Study
Figure 1. ‘Middleton Hall Front View’, lithograph by Augustus Butler. 1853. Image courtesy of Lowri Ann Rees. Middleton Hall, Carmarthenshire by Lowri Ann Rees Please note that this case study was...
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