Charles Boone (died 1735), of Rook's Nest, in Tandridge, and Godstone, Surrey, was an East India Company officer and politician who sat in the

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from 1727 and 1734. He was a

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governor of the

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from 1715 to 1722. Boone was the son of Thomas Boone of St. Andrew Undershaft, London, merchant, and his wife Sarah Finch of St. Botolph's, Bishopsgate, London. He joined the service of the

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before 1710, when he was at Fort St. George. He married Jane Chardin, daughter of Daniel Chardin merchant of Fort St. George, India, and France. She died on 28 November 1710. On 26 December 1715, he took office as

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. As governor, he implemented

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's plans for the fortification of the island, and had walls built from

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in the north to Mendham's point in the south. He established the Marine force, and constructed the St. Thomas Cathedral in 1718, which was the first

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Church in Bombay. He returned to England after his governorship finished on 9 January 1722. Boone was returned unopposed as

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for Ludgershall at the

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. In 1729 he became a Director of the East India Company. In Parliament, he voted against the Administration on the civil list arrears in 1729 and the Hessians in 1730, and was absent from the other recorded divisions. At the

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he stood down from his seat, where he was succeeded by his eldest son

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. Boone married, as his second wife, Mary Evelyn, widow of George Evelyn of Godstone, and daughter of Lt.-Col. Thomas Garth of Harrold, Bedfordshire on 8 August 1727. He died on 8 October 1735 leaving a son Daniel by his first wife and three sons including

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by his second wife.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Boone, Charles 1735 deaths Governors of Bombay Year of birth missing Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies British MPs 1727–1734