Samuel Feake (died 16 Jun 1757) was an administrator of the

English 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 Southe ...

. He served as President in the Bay, and Governor and Commander-in-Chief for Fort William. His son

Charles Feake Charles Feake (c.1716–1762) was an English physician and Fellow of the Royal Society. Life He was the son of Samuel Feake (died 1757) of Durrington Hall in Essex from 1720. He was born in Cossimbazar, West Bengal, where his father was governo ...

was an English physician and Fellow of the Royal Society. Feake was appointed on 12 January 1718 as the

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for the United East India Company after

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. He left office on 17 January 1723 and later returned to

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due to illness.

Death

Feake died on 16 June 1757 in

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at the aged 75 years.

References

Presidents of Bengal English businesspeople British East India Company people 18th-century British civil servants 1757 deaths {{UK-gov-bio-stub