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A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Ash family 70 until sold by them to Zachary Bayly, a West India merchant, who owned it in 1689 and 1713. 71 It passed …
Old and New London
… who "died in the service of the Queen and their country in India," in 1857 and 1858; and there is also a memorial window …
Old and New London
… the wit; and last not least, the first Governor-General of India, Warren Hastings. To come to more recent times, the … the able, energetic, and successful Governor-General of India, whose impeachment before the House of Commons in … on the vexed question of Warren Hastings' conduct in India, they had better read Lord Thurlow's summing up of the …
Old and New London
… curtailed at the northern end by the erection of the new India and Foreign Offices. Narrow as it was, King Street was … the Ladies' Association for Promoting Female Education in India, and the Universities' Mission to Central Africa. In …
Old and New London
… reliefs from the ruins of one of the ancient capitals of India, situated in the great desert of Rajpootana, of the … in 1861. Here the office of the Secretary of State for India was accommodated for a few years, until the new …
Old and New London
… Spectator, took their title from "a sort of cannibals in India, who subsist by plundering and devouring all the … Admiralty, the Horse Guards, the Treasury, and the India and Foreign Offices; at the opposite end is Buckingham … hoped, the happier, by the gift of a tide-waitership. THE INDIA FOREIGN OFFICE, FROM ST. JAMES'S PARK. Between the …
A Dictionary of London
… Ward. The site seems to be occupied now by the West India House, Nos. 96 to 98 Leadenhall Street. Name derived …
A History of the County of Hertford
… There are also factories for the manufacture of india-rubber and waterproof goods at Harpenden. Watercress is …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… the imports mainly consist of American, Baltic, and West India produce, linen and flax from Ireland, fruit from the … and nails; soap and candles are also made, for the West India market and for home consumption. The coal-mines, which …
Old and New London
… of Former OccupantsThe Old Foreign OfficeThe New Foreign, India, and Colonial OfficesLibrary of the India Office. Nearly the whole of the western side of … of the Secretaries of State for Foreign Affairs, for India, and for the Colonies. The whole exterior group of …
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