Jacob Bosanquet Jr. (1755 – 30 July 1828) was a British merchant who was chairman of the

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 Southea ...

Life

He was born in Hamburg, the son of the merchant Jacob Bosanquet. He became a junior partner in his cousin's firm of Bosanquet & Willermin, silk merchants, for several years before being elected to the Direction of the East India Company in 1782. After serving three terms as a Director, he was elected Deputy Chairman of the company three times (1797, 1802 and 1810) and Chairman of the company, in each of the years 1798, 1803 and 1811). Bosanquet acquired the manors of Broxbournebury, Hoddesdonbury and Baas. and was pricked

High Sheriff of Hertfordshire The High Sheriff of Hertfordshire was an ancient Sheriff title originating in the time of the Angles, not long after the foundation of the Kingdom of England, which was in existence for around a thousand years. On 1 April 1974, under the provisio ...

for 1803–04.

Family

Bosanquet was married 27 September 1790 to Henrietta, daughter of Sir George Armytage, Baronet and had two sons and two daughters.A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great ..., Volume 3 By John Burk

/ref> His son George Jacob Bosanquet was also High Sheriff of Hertfordshire.

References

1755 births 1828 deaths Directors of the British East India Company British Indian history High Sheriffs of Hertfordshire Bosanquet family {{england-business-bio-stub