Thomas Chambers (colonial administrator)

Sir Thomas Chambers
Agent of Fort St George (Madras)
In office
1658 – 1661 or 1662
Preceded byThomas Greenhill
Succeeded bySir Edward Winter

Sir Thomas Chambers or Chamber (died 1692)[1] was an English administrator and factor of the Honourable East India Company who served as the Agent of Madras from 1658 to 1661 or 1662. His family background is reported as Wolsty in Cumberland. [2]

Tenure as Agent of Madras

As soon as Thomas Chambers became Agent, he was instructed by the authorities in England to make decisions based on a majority vote and not on his private discretion. In the case of a stalemate, the Agent was allowed to cast the deciding vote.[3]

Later life and family

In 1670 Chambers bought the park and manor of Hanworth, Middlesex, from the heir of Francis Cottington, 1st Baron Cottington. His son Thomas (1677–1750) married Mary Berkeley, daughter of Charles Berkeley, 2nd Earl of Berkeley.[4][5] In the next generation Mary Chambers, heiress to Sir Thomas, married Vere Beauclerk, 1st Baron Vere.[2]

References

  1. ^ 'Spelthorne Hundred: Feltham', in A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 2, General; Ashford, East Bedfont With Hatton, Feltham, Hampton With Hampton Wick, Hanworth, Laleham, Littleton, ed. William Page (London, 1911), pp. 314-319. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/middx/vol2/pp314-319.
  2. ^ a b "Antiquary, a magazine devoted to the study of the past". Internet Archive. London: Elliott Stock. 1905. p. 66. Retrieved 6 October 2016.
  3. ^ Ogborn, Miles (2007). Indian Ink: Script and Print in the Making of the English East India Company. University of Chicago Press. p. 77. ISBN 9780226620428. 0226620417.
  4. ^ Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.); Katharine Baetjer (2009). British Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1575-1875. Metropolitan Museum of Art. p. 28. ISBN 978-1-58839-348-7.
  5. ^ "Transactions of the London and Middlesex Archaeological Society". Internet Archive. London: J. H. and J. Parker. 1856. p. 185. Retrieved 6 October 2016.
Preceded by Agent of Madras
1658–1661 		Succeeded by


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