Sir Thomas Rumbold, 1st Baronet (15 January 1736 – 11 November 1791) was a British administrator in India and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1770 and 1790. He served as Governor of Madras from 1777 to 1780. He became infamous for his corruption and, for in effect stealing, the ring of the Nawab of Arcot.[1] He brought home from India 1.5 million pagodas (a pagoda was worth eight shillings) or about £600,000 (at that time) and was a classic example of a nabob. Attempts were made to investigate the misdemeanour by Henry Dundas but the case did not make much headway.
^Nechtman, Tillman W. (2010). Nabobs: Empire and identity in eighteenth century Britain. Cambridge University Press. p. 148.
Sir ThomasRumbold, 1st Baronet (15 January 1736 – 11 November 1791) was a British administrator in India and politician who sat in the House of Commons...
missionary Rumbold baronets including: Sir ThomasRumbold, 1st Baronet (1736–1791), British politician and administrator in India Sir George Rumbold, 2nd Baronet...
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created on 27 March 1779 for the politician and colonial administrator ThomasRumbold. The second Baronet was Minister at Hamburg. The fifth Baronet was President...
Wood Hall (now Woodhall Park), Hertfordshire, built in 1777–82 for Sir ThomasRumbold, which includes a hall decorated in the Etruscan style. In 1780 he designed...
July 1783. Supply of Ships to Enemies Act 1782 (22 Geo. 3. c. 71) Sir ThomasRumbold and another Act 1782 (22 Geo. 3. c. 54) Importation of Silk Act 1779...
valley. It has been the home of Heath Mount School since the 1930s. ThomasRumbold, who was later made a baronet, acquired the Woodhall estate using the...
Sir Thomas Tyrwhitt Jones, 1st Baronet FRS (1 September 1765 – 26 November 1811) of Stanley Hall, Shropshire, was a British politician. Tyrwhitt was born...
conversation between the Nepali Vakeels and Golding was communicated to ThomasRumbold, the company's chief at Patna, on 6 April 1767. Golding had made a strong...
damaged in a fire; ThomasRumbold purchased the estate in 1774. He demolished the remnants of the house and built a new one devised by Thomas Leverton in 1777...
Charles Edmund Rumbold (11 August 1788 – 31 May 1857) was a British Whig politician. He was the fifth son of Sir ThomasRumbold, 1st Baronet, and his second...
1784. Rumbold was the son of Governor of Madras ThomasRumbold. His brothers George Rumbold was an ambassador and his brother Charles Rumbold was a fellow...
1780. Rous was the third son of Thomas Rous of Piercefield, Monmouthshire, and his wife Mary Bates, daughter of Thomas Bates. His father was a director...
Sir Thomas Beecham, Arthur Bourchier and Rupert D'Oyly Carte. Rumbold was born in Stockholm, the younger son of the diplomat Sir Horace Rumbold and his...
charge on 8 August 1684 was the First President of Madras. Elihu Yale, Thomas Pitt and George Macartney are some of the well-known Presidents of Madras...
for the defence in a number of high-profile cases: he defended Sir ThomasRumbold in 1783, was one of the three counsel for the defence in the Impeachment...
Constitutional Convention in 1787, and by Thomas Jefferson shortly before his death in 1826. Little is known of Rumbold's background, except that he was born...
Great Britain." Sir ThomasRumbold and another Act 1782 22 Geo. 3. c. 54 19 June 1782 An Act for restraining Sir ThomasRumbold Baronet, and Peter Perring...
corruption by his opponent, ThomasRumbold was exposed. In 1776 he was awarded £11,000 damages for bribery against Rumbold. He bought a large amount of...
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