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THORNHILL, JOHN, son of Cudbert Thornhill, Capt. EI Maritime Service, Master Attendant, Port of Calcutta, and Maria Ursula Hammond; bapt. 17 Nov 1773; adm. 31 Jan 1784; Min. Can. (aged 13) 1787; Writer, EICS Bengal 1790; arrived in India 1 Aug 1790; Assistant to Secretary, Secret Dept.; Assistant to Collector, Twenty-four Parganas 1793; Collector 1797; Deputy Collector of Customs, Calcutta 1801; present at OWW dinner at Calcutta 1801 (Hickey, Memoirs, iv, 270); Secretary, Board of Trade 1804; Postmaster-Gen., 1810; member, Post Office Committee 1811; res. 7 Jan 1812; director, East India Company 1816-40; m. 1st, 15 Feb 1794 (IGI) Henrietta Sarah Craigie; m. 2nd, 29 Apr 1817 Henrietta Philippina, dau. of Col. Mark Beaufoy, Bushey Park, Herts.; d. 3 Feb 1841.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.