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Authorised form of nameEast; Sir; Edward Hyde (1764 - 1847); 1st Baronet Calcutta; judge
Dates1764 - 1847
NationalityBritish
Place of birthJamaica, West Indies, North and Central America
Date of birth09 September 1764
Place of deathSherwood Lodge, Battersea, London, England, United Kingdom
Date of death08 January 1847
OccupationBarrister; judge; colonial administrator; plantation and slave owner
Research fieldLaw
Education
ActivityEducation:
Harrow School; Magdalen College, University of Oxford
Career:
Major slave owner in Jamaica, where he was born and his family had long-established sugar plantations; called to the Bar at Inner Temple (1786); MP for Great Bedwyn (1792-1796); Principal of Hindu College (later Hindu School, Kolkata); Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Fort William, Bengal, India (1813-1822); MP for Winchester (1823-183); Privy Councillor; Bencher of Inner Temple
Honours:
Kt 1813; Bt 1823
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election11/04/1799
Age at election34
RelationshipsGreat-grandson of Captain John East (aka Edward East) who was active in the conquest of Jamaica; married Jane Isabella Hankey (1786)
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB; Wikipedia; UCL LBS
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc 1847 No 69 pp 708-710
References:
'Sir Edward Hyde East 1st Bart.', Legacies of British Slave-ownership database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/16601 [accessed 3rd July 2020)]
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/68997592
CodeNA2947
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
EC/1799/02East, Sir Edward Hyde: certificate of election to the Royal Society
IM/001228East, Sir Edward Hydend
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