| Authorised form of name | Morris; John Carnac (1798 - 1858) |
| Dates | 1798 - 1858 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Ootacamund [Udagamandalam], Tamil Nadu, India, Asia |
| Date of birth | 16 October 1798 |
| Place of death | Jersey, Channel Islands, United Kingdom |
| Date of death | 02 August 1858 |
| DatesAndPlaces | Burial:
St Heliers, Jersey, Channel Islands, United Kingdom |
| Occupation | Sailor; civil servant; colonial administrator |
| Research field | Language |
| Telugu |
| Activity | Education:
East India Company College at Haileybury (1815-1818)
Career:
Entered the Royal Navy as a midshipman, and saw active service during the last two years of the Napoleonic Wars (1814-1815); Madras [Chennai] civil service (1818-1846); served in Masulipatam [ Machilipatnam] (1821) and Coimbore; paralysis of both legs (1823); from when he served in the Madras secretariat; Telugu translator (1832-1846); Registrar of the Courts of Sudder and of Sudder Foujdarry Adawlut [Adalat]; Trustee of the Fort St George Civil Fund; Member of the College of Fort St George for Public Instruction; Accountant General for Madras (1839); founder of the Madras government bank (1834), first Secretary and Treasurer (1834), Superintendent (1835); returned to England (1846); established a company to run steamers between Milford Haven and Australia (1848); managing director of the London and Eastern Banking Company (c1848 -1855), Chairman (1855-1858) when the bank was ruined; retired to Jersey
Memberships:
Madras Literary Society; Freemason |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 10/03/1831 |
| Age at election | 42 |
| Relationships | Son of John Morris, Director of the East India Company |
| PublishedWorks | 'Teloogoo Selections, with Translations and Grammatical Analyses: to which is added a Glossary of Revenue Terms used in the Northern Circars' (Madras), 1823 |
| OtherInfo | The East India Company was an English and later British company formed to trade in the Indian Ocean region. The company ended up seizing control of large parts of the Indian subcontinent (and briefly Afghanistan) and colonised parts of Southeast Asia and Hong Kong. Originally chartered as the Governor and Company of Merchants of London Trading into the East-Indies, by Queen Elizabeth I in 1600, the East India Company rose to account for half of the world's trade, thereby amassing vast wealth, influence and private armies. The East India company used enslaved people for labour across their territories from 1621 until abolition of slavery in India in 1843. The company ruled large areas of India with its private armies, exercising military power and seizing administrative functions from local rulers from around 1757 until the British Raj which replaced HEIC control with direct colonial rule of India by the British Government in 1858. Under the HEIC and later colonial governance the British systematically oppressed indigenous people and exploited natural resources of colonised regions for commercial gain. The Company was dissolved in 1874. The Royal Society owned shares in the HEIC from 1682-1699, it worked with the Company on scentific enterprises (such as surveys) and many of its Fellows, such as John Carnac Morris had positions or financial interests in the Company. |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB; Wikipedia
References:
Craven, S A, 'CANGO CAVE IN APRIL 1834: FIVE VISITORS FROM INDIA' in Bulletin of the National Library of South Africa, vol. 74, no 1, June 2020 |
| Virtual International Authority File | https://viaf.org/viaf/309593766 |
| Code | NA1258 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| EC/1831/08 | Morris, John Carnac: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |