Beri Thimappa / Thimmanna was the

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(interpreter) and chief negotiator for Francis Day and

Andrew Cogan Andrew Cogan also known as Andrew Coggan (born circa 1600, Greenwich, England; died circa 1660) was the first agent of the English East India Company to rule Madras (a. k. a. Chennai). He was the chief of the Masulipatnam factory ...

, the agents of the

British East India Company The East India Company (EIC) was an English, and later British, joint-stock company founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874. It was formed to trade in the Indian Ocean region, initially with the East Indies (the Indian subcontinent and South ...

, and was instrumental in the purchase of Madras from the Nayak brothers. Beri Thimmappa migrated in the early 17th century to Chennai from palakollu, near Machilipatnam in Andhra Pradesh. He established a ''Black Town'' outside the walls of the newly built Fort of Madras which later became

Fort St George Fort St. George (or historically, White Town) is a fortress in the coastal city of Chennai, India. Founded in 1639, it was the first English (later British) fortress in India. The construction of the fort provided the impetus for further ...

. His families were chief merchants of East India Company for several decades. Thimmappa's brother Beri Venkatadri owned ''Guindy Lodge'', which is present Tamil Nadu Raj Bhavan.He is one of the founder of Madras state. He belongs to Perike (Puragiri Kshatriya) caste. The Madras Tercentenary commemoration volume, Volume 1939
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