Stephen Law (Governor of Bombay)

Stephen Law (1699 – 25 December 1787) was the Governor of Bombay from 7 April 1739 to 15 November 1742.

Stephen Law
Governor of Bombay
In office
7 April 1739 (1739-04-07) – 15 November 1742 (1742-11-15)

Law was born into a merchant family and became an East India Company writer in Bombay in 1715, graduating in 1720 to become a factor.

In 1739, he was appointed Governor. He was recalled in 1742 following accusations of excessive expenditure in protecting the settlement from the Marathas. He retired to Broxbourne Manor, Broxbourne, England and became a Director of the Company for 1746–49, 1751–54, and 1756.[1]

After his wife died in January 1785,[2] he moved to Goudhurst in Kent.[3][4]

Death

He died in 1787 at Bedgbury House, Kent, the home of his son-in-law. His daughter Stephana had married John Cartier, the ex-Governor of Bengal. His son, John Law, became the Archdeacon of Rochester.[5]

References
  1. "The Directors of the East India Company, 1754-1790" (PDF). James Gordon Parker. Retrieved 9 December 2017.
  2. Arthur Jones, ed., Hertfordshire 1731-1800 as recorded in the Gentleman's Magazine, 1993, p. 207
  3. Octavius Francis Christie, ed., The Diary of the Rev. William Jones, 1777-1821: Curate and Vicar of Broxbourne and the Hamlet of Hoddesdon, 1781-1821, 1929.
  4. Will of Stephen Law, Bedfordshire and Luton Archives and Records Service, Item Ref AD422.
  5. "Law, John (LW756J)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.



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