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Colebrooke Commission
Colebrooke, Devon is a village and parish in the county of Devon, England. Colebrooke may also refer to: People * Baron Colebrooke, a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom * Henry Thomas Colebrooke (1765–1837), English orientalist and mathematician * James Colebrooke (banker) (1680–1752), English banker ** Robert Colebrooke (1718–1785), his son, English MP *** Robert Hyde Colebrooke (c. 1762–1808), son of Robert, British infantry officer in India ** James Colebrooke (1722–1761), his next son, English MP, 1st Baronet Colebrooke ** George Colebrooke (1729–1809), his last son, English speculator, 2nd Baronet Colebrooke, father of Henry Thomas Colebrooke * William MacBean George Colebrooke (1787–1870), British soldier and colonial administrator, lieutenant governor of New Brunswick * Sir Charles James Colebrooke Little (1882–1973), Admiral of the Royal Navy * James Colebrooke Patterson (1839–1929), Canadian politician Places * Colebrooke Island, Andaman Islands ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colebrooke, Devon
Colebrooke is a village and parish in Devon, England about 8 km west of Crediton. The main point of interest is the church and the connection to Henry Kingsley's novel ''The Recollections of Geoffry Hamlyn''. Also Uncle Tom Cobley, of the folk song, signed his will at Pascoe House, but is buried 4 miles west at Spreyton. The champion Devon wrestler, Abraham Cann was born and buried here. He won the all-comers wrestling crown in London. Colebrooke gave its name to Colebrook, Connecticut, United States. Roman road The remains of the agger can be seen in a field some 300m South of Rag Lane and just to the East of Five Acre Copse. This is also clearly visible from aerial views accessible online. The road follows the same line all the way from North Tawton to this point where the route becomes less obvious. A rather straight lane along the ridge of hills to the East of the railway line is suggestive of its line. Other History Colebrooke is also the supposed site of a Roma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baron Colebrooke
Baron Colebrooke, of Stebunheath in the County of Middlesex, was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1906 for Sir Edward Colebrooke, 5th Baronet. He held several positions at the British court. The Colebrooke family descended from the London banker James Colebrooke. His second son James Colebrooke represented Gatton in the House of Commons. On 12 October 1759 he was created a baronet, of Gatton in the County of Surrey, in the Baronetage of Great Britain, with remainder to his younger brother George. He was succeeded according to the special remainder by his younger brother George, the second Baronet. He was Member of Parliament for Arundel and also served as Chairman of the Honourable East India Company. On Colebrooke's death the title passed to his second but eldest surviving son, the third Baronet. He died childless and was succeeded by his nephew, the fourth Baronet. He was the son of Henry Colebrooke, an administrator in India and Sanskrit schola ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Thomas Colebrooke
Henry Thomas Colebrooke FRS FRSE (15 June 1765 – 10 March 1837) was an English orientalist and mathematician. He has been described as "the first great Sanskrit scholar in Europe". Biography Henry Thomas Colebrooke was born on 15 June 1765. His parents were Sir George Colebrooke, 2nd Baronet, MP for Arundel and Chairman of the East India Company from 1769, and Mary Gaynor, daughter and heir of Patrick Gaynor of Antigua. He was educated at home. In 1782 Colebrooke was appointed through his father's influence to a writership with the East India Company in Calcutta. In 1786 and three years later he was appointed assistant collector in the revenue department at Tirhut. He wrote ''Remarks on the Husbandry and Commerce of Bengal'', which was privately published in 1795, by which time he had transferred to Purnia. This opposed the East India Company's monopoly on Indian trade, advocating instead for free trade between Britain and India, which caused offence to the East Ind ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Colebrooke (banker)
James Colebrooke (12 May 1680 – 18 November 1752) was a mercer, banker, and citizen of London. Early life and family James Colebrooke was born at Arundel on 12 May 1680. He married Mary Hudson. They had children: * Robert Colebrooke (died 1785) * James Colebrooke (1722-1761) * George Colebrooke (1729-1809) Robert Colebrooke was member of Parliament for Maldon for 1741 to 1761 and then minister to the Swiss Cantons in 1762-64. Both younger brothers were at first opposition Whigs, but switched support to the Duke of Newcastle's government and were rewarded in 1759 with the creation of a baronetcy for James (who had daughters but no son). A special remainder of the baronetcy allowed it to pass to George when James died in 1761. Career Colebrooke was a merchant and banker, described by C.M. Tenison in Cokayne as "a great money scrivenor in Threadneedle Street".Cokayne, George Edward. (Ed.) (1906''Complete baronetage. Vol. V. 1707-1800'' Exeter: William Pollard. p. 116. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Colebrooke
Robert Colebrooke (24 June 1718 –10 May 1784) was a British Member of Parliament.Cokayne, George Edward. (Ed.) (1906''Complete baronetage. Vol. V. 1707-1800'' Exeter: William Pollard. p. 116. Early life Robert Colebrooke was the first son of James Colebrooke, a wealthy London banker, and his wife Mary Hudson. His younger brothers were James Colebrooke, MP and George Colebrooke, MP. Robert's father made over to him the Chilham Estate in Kent when he married in 1741. Robert would sell it in 1774 to Thomas Heron. Career He was elected Member of Parliament for Maldon for 1741 to 1761. He was minister to the Swiss Cantons in 1762–64. Death He died at Soissons in France on 10 May 1784 and was buried at Chilham on 26 June 1784. He had married twice: firstly Henrietta (died 1753), the daughter of Lord Harry Powlett, and secondly, on 4 August 1756, Elizabeth, daughter and co-heiress of John Thresher of Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire. He was the father of Robert Hyde Colebrooke, one o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Hyde Colebrooke
Robert Hyde Colebrooke (1762? - 21 September 1808) was a British infantry officer in India who conducted early surveys in Bengal and Mysore before becoming Surveyor General of Bengal, a position he held from 1788 to 1794 succeeding Alexander Kyd. Life and work It is thought that Colebrooke was born in Switzerland. His father Robert Colebrooke (1718 - 1784) was the British ambassador to the Swiss confederacy from 1762 to 1764 and his mother was Mary (née Williams). The father had to sell his property of Chilham Castle in 1774 to pay his creditors. Colebrooke joined the Bengal Infantry in 1778. T.D. Pearse trained and appointed him as Surveyor in 1783. Colebrooke surveyed the distance from Hooghly to Madras using a perambulator. Trained in topographical illustration and surveying he produced "''Twelve views of places in the kingdom of Mysore''" in 1794 based on his work in Mysore in 1790. He accompanied Archibald Blair to survey the Andaman Islands in 1789. Colebrooke Island a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Colebrooke
Sir James Edward Colebrooke, 1st Baronet (21 July 1722 — 10 May 1761) sat in the House of Commons from 1751 to 1761. Early life He was the son of James Colebrooke, of Chilham Castle, Kent, a very prominent private banker in London, and his wife Mary Hudson. He and his brother George were educated at Leiden University; on his return to Britain, he married Mary Skynner, daughter and co-heiress of Stephen Skynner of Walthamstow, Essex, and Mary Remington, in May 1747. Career Shortly thereafter he bought Gatton Park from William Newland, with the proprietorship of the borough of Gatton, and the privilege of sending two members to the House of Commons. He duly exercised the privilege, sitting in the House of Commons from 1751 to 1761. Sir James was invested as a Knight and was created 1st Baronet Colebrooke, of Gatton, county Surrey (Great Britain) on 12 October 1759, with a special remainder to his brother, George. He left two daughters, Emma, Lady Tankerville who was a botanis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Colebrooke
Sir George Colebrooke, 2nd Baronet (14 June 1729 – 5 August 1809), of Gatton in Surrey, was an English merchant banker, Member of Parliament for Arundel from 1754-1774 and chairman of the East India Company from 1767-1772. He was conspicuous by his wealth and ostentation, and the ambitious and speculative nature of his financial activities. Colebrooke was known as a stockjobber and a Nabob with close ties to Robert Clive and Alexander Fordyce. Colebrooke bankrupted himself through unwise speculations in the crisis of 1772. Early life Colebrooke was born in 1729 at Chilham, Kent, the third son of James Colebrooke, a London banker, and was educated at Leiden University around 1745, likewise John Wilkes and Charles Townshend. He acquired Arnos Grove house in 1752 on the death of his father.Mason, Tom. (1947) ''The Story of Southgate''. Enfield: Meyers Brooks. p. 61. His older brothers were Robert Colebrooke and James Colebrooke. Robert was Member for Maldon, Essex from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William MacBean George Colebrooke
Sir William MacBean George Colebrooke, (9 November 1787 – 6 February 1870) was an English career soldier and colonial administrator who became lieutenant governor of New Brunswick in 1841. Life The son of Colonel Paulet Welbore Colebrooke, R.A. (died 1816), and a daughter of Major-General Grant, he was educated at Woolwich, entering the Royal Artillery as a first lieutenant on 12 September 1803. In 1805 he was ordered to the East Indies—first to Ceylon, then in 1806 to Malabar, and back to Ceylon in 1807. He went to India in 1809, and served with the field army there through 1810, becoming a captain on 27 September 1810. Colebrooke next served in Java, and was wounded in the operations against the Dutch in that island in 1811; here he remained under the British occupation, and was deputy quartermaster-general in 1813, being promoted major on 1 June 1813. He was sent as political agent and commissioner to Palembong in Sumatra, and on to Bengal in 1814. He resumed his old du ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Little (Royal Navy Officer)
Admiral Sir Charles James Colebrooke Little (14 June 1882 – 20 June 1973) was a senior Royal Navy officer who went on to be Second Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Personnel. Naval career Little joined the Royal Navy at the training ship ''Britannia'' in 1897. He served in World War I and commanded the cruiser HMS ''Fearless'' and the Grand Fleet Submarine Flotilla from 1916 to 1918. After the War he commanded the cruiser HMS ''Cleopatra'' in the Baltic Sea and then, in 1920, became Director of the Trade Division at the Admiralty. He was appointed Captain of the Fleet for the Mediterranean Station in 1922 and then became a Senior Staff Officer at the Royal Naval War College in 1924. He became Captain of the battleship HMS ''Iron Duke'' in 1926 and Director of the Royal Naval Staff College in 1927. He became Commander of the 2nd Battle Squadron in 1930 and Rear Admiral Submarines in 1931. He was appointed Deputy Chief of the Naval Staff in 1932, promoted vice-admiral on 1 Sept ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Colebrooke Patterson
James Colebrooke Patterson, PC (1839 – February 17, 1929) was a Canadian politician. He served as a federal cabinet minister from 1892 to 1895 and as the sixth Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba from 1895 to 1900. Early life Patterson was born to a Protestant family in Armagh, Ireland, and was educated at Dublin. He moved to Canada in 1857 and entered the civil service, though he later resigned. He subsequently trained in law and was called to the bar in 1876. Political career Patterson settled in the Windsor area and held a number of local offices (including a ten-year term as reeve of Windsor). In 1875, he was elected to the Ontario legislature as a Conservative, defeating independent candidate L. Montreuil by 1209 votes to 755 in the riding of Essex North. In 1878, Patterson resigned his provincial seat to run for the federal House of Commons. He was elected in the riding of Essex, defeating Liberal William McGregor by 2596 votes to 2318. Patterson became a ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colebrooke Island
Colebrooke Island is an island of the Andaman Islands. It belongs to the North and Middle Andaman administrative district, part of the Indian union territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands. The island lies north from Port Blair. It is named after Robert Hyde Colebrooke who surveyed the region along with Archibald Blair. Geography The island belongs to the East Baratang Group and lies east of Baratang. Administration Politically, Colebrooke Island, along neighboring East Baratang Group, is part of Rangat Taluk A tehsil (, also known as tahsil, taluka, or taluk) is a local unit of administrative division in some countries of South Asia. It is a subdistrict of the area within a district including the designated populated place that serves as its administr .... References * Islands of North and Middle Andaman district Uninhabited islands of India Islands of India Islands of the Bay of Bengal {{AndamanNicobar-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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