James Rivett-Carnac

Sir James Rivett-Carnac, 1st Baronet (11 November 1784 – 28 January 1846) was an Indian-born British statesman who served as the Governor of the Bombay Presidency of British India from 1838 to 1841, during the period of Company Rule.[1] His family name came about in 1801, when his father was made testamentary by his brother-in-law General John Carnac, husband of Elizabeth Rivett (1751–1780).[2]

For the Royal Navy officer, see James Rivett-Carnac (Royal Navy officer).

James Rivett Carnac by Francis Leggatt Chantrey (1839)

Born in Bombay in 1784,[3] Carnac served the East India Company in India from 1801[4] and was a director of the company for various periods between 1827 and 1838.[5][6]

He was made a baronet in 1836 and elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in May 1838.[7][8]

Rivett-Carnac was Member of Parliament (MP) for Sandwich from 1837 to 1839. He succeeded Robert Grant as Governor of Bombay Presidency after the latter's death on 9 July 1838.[9]

He died on 28 January 1846 in Rockcliffe, near Lymington, Hampshire.[8] In 1815 he had married Anna-Maria, the eldest daughter of William Ricardes of Penglais.[10]

Rivett-Carnac is the ancestor of the Rivett-Carnac baronets. The family includes the bag designer Lulu Guinness (born 1960), daughter of the ninth baronet.

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References
  1. Wintle, Claire (2013). Colonial Collecting and Display: Encounters with Material Culture from the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Berghahn Books. p. 77. ISBN 978-0-85745-942-8.
  2. "Obituary: Sir Miles Rivett-Carnac, Bt". The Daily Telegraph. 6 October 2009. Retrieved 5 April 2021.
  3. Terence R. Blackburn, Justice for the Raja of Sattara? (APH Publishing, 2007) p. 139
  4. The Wellesley Papers: The Life and Correspondence of Richard Colley Wellesley, Marquess Wellesley, 1760-1842 vol 2 (H. Jenkins, 1914) p. 316
  5. C.H. & D. Philips, 'Alphabetical List of Directors of the East India Company from 1758 to 1858', in Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society October 1941
  6. Charles Campbell Prinsep, Record of Services of the Honourable East India Company's Civil Servants in the Madras Presidency, from 1741 to 1858 (1885) p. xxii
  7. "No. 19359". The London Gazette. 23 February 1836. p. 358.
  8. "Library and Archive Catalogue". Royal Society. Retrieved 9 December 2017.
  9. Kulkarni, Sumitra (1995). The Satara Raj, 1818-1848: A Study in History, Administration, and Culture. Mittal Publications. p. 27. ISBN 978-8-17099-581-4.
  10. Member of the, Middle Temple. The Assembled Commons or Parliamentary Biographer. p. 49.


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