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William Gyfford
Agent of Madras
In office 3 July 1681 – 8 August 1684
Preceded by
Streynsham Master
Succeeded by
Elihu Yale
President of Madras
In office 26 January 1685 – 25 July 1687
Preceded by
Elihu Yale
Succeeded by
Elihu Yale
Personal details
Occupation
lawyer, administrator
Signature
A group of Madras Native Soldiers
William Gyfford was an English factor and Agent of Madras from 3 July 1681 to 8 August 1684 and the President of Madras from 26 January 1685 to 25 July 1687.[1]
William Gyfford was associated with the East India Company's factory at Madras right from the time of its inception. He was made a factor of the East India Company in December 1657 and in 1662 became also a member of Council of Fort St George.[2]
^List of Governors of Madras, from worldstatesmen.org
^Works Issued by the Hakluyt Society by Hakluyt Society - 1888, pp clxxxv
WilliamGyfford was an English factor and Agent of Madras from 3 July 1681 to 8 August 1684 and the President of Madras from 26 January 1685 to 25 July...
Customer. In the same year, Gov. Streynsham Master was replaced by WilliamGyfford, and Yale was sent as a diplomat to meet the VOC Governor of Pulicat...
back to Madras. On 3 July 1681 Streynsham Master was replaced with WilliamGyfford as the Agent of Madras. The population of Madras had increased to the...
East India Company in the Bay of Bengal". On 21 December 1684, William Gyfford who was the President and Governor of Fort St. George was given the additional...
subjects and the British. By 1717 Kyffin had retired and was replaced by WilliamGyfford who was if anything even more self serving and divisive than his predecessor...
restored supervisory control over Bengal to the new president at Madras, WilliamGyfford, and replaced Hedges in Bengal with John Beard, the elder. When Beard...
India. In 1683, Governor WilliamGyfford (1681–1687) and his Council in Madras established a bank. In 1805, Governor Sir William Bentinck convened a Finance...
Streynsham Master (1640–1724) 27 Jan 1678 3 Jul 1681 Construction of St. Mary's Church and Kalikambal Temple 14 WilliamGyfford 3 Jul 1681 8 Aug 1684...
governor appointed by the Company to Bengal since William Hedges (agent and governor) in 1681 and WilliamGyfford (president and governor) in December 1683 (after...
Porte de Goudelour (Cuddalore). He maintained good relations with WilliamGyfford and Thomas Pitt. Manucci remained in India for much of his life and...
Edward Gyfford or Gifford (1772 – after 1851) was a British architect and surveyor known for his two volumes of designs for small buildings that were...
jobs after corporate administrator WilliamGyfford imposed a house tax on residences within the city walls. Gyfford places security forces at all entrances...
the colony on behalf of the East India Company, and is succeeded by WilliamGyfford. January 8 – Almost 200 people are arrested in Coventry by English...
Madras was once again elevated to the status of a Presidency and WilliamGyfford appointed the first President. In 1690, the East India Company purchased...
jobs after corporate administrator WilliamGyfford imposed a house tax on residences within the city walls. Gyfford places security forces at all entrances...
Andrew Windsor, Sir Rauf Verney, junr., John Cheynye, Sir Wm. Hampden, John Gyfford. Cambridge:—Sir Wm. Findern, Sir Rob. Coton, Sir Rauf Chamberlain, Sir...
to the Queen through them only. The chief factor at the Anjengo factor, Gyfford however refused to hand over the customary gifts meant for the Rani of...
Kemble as Montgomeri, James Aickin as Lord De Courci, John Hayman Packer as Gyfford, John Phillimore as Fitzallan and John Fawcett as Raymond. The play enjoyed...
Statutes at Large. Vol. 9: From the First Year of K. William and Q. Mary to the Eighth Year of K. William III. Cambridge: Joseph Bentham – via Internet Archive...
Suppliants by John Delap (1781) Marlow in The Metamorphosis by William Jackson (1783) Gyfford in The Carmelite by Richard Cumberland (1784) Duke of Genoa...
(1805–1868) Henry Hetherington (1792–1849) John Cam Hobhouse (Baron Broughton de Gyfford) (1786–1869) Joseph Hume PC (1777–1855) George de Hochepied Larpent (1786–1855)...
death in 1609 Hoby inherited from her "all my pastures of the manor of Gyfford in Gloucestershire", and in 1617 he inherited the estates of his brother...
1540: Sir Edward Aston (died 1568) of Tixall Hall 1541: Sir John Gyfford 1542: Sir William Basset of Blore Hall 1543: Thomas Fitzherbert of Norbury Hall...
1496: Thomas Langston, snr, of Caversfield, Bucks 5 November 1497: John Gyfford, of Twyford, Bucks 5 November 1498: David Phelip, of Chenies, Bucks 11...
London and worked as a corn merchant, before going to work for a brewery, Gyfford & Co. Marrying Alice Christian Tree, his cousin, he inherited a large sum...
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