Stephen Law (Governor of Bombay)

Stephen Law
Stephen Law
Governor of Bombay
	In office; 7 April 1739 – 15 November 1742

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

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]

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

"The Directors of the East India Company, 1754-1790" (PDF). James Gordon Parker. Retrieved 9 December 2017.
Arthur Jones, ed., Hertfordshire 1731-1800 as recorded in the Gentleman's Magazine, 1993, p. 207
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
Will of Stephen Law, Bedfordshire and Luton Archives and Records Service, Item Ref AD422
"Law, John (LW756J)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.

"Previous Governors List". Governor of Maharashtra. Archived from the original on 6 February 2009. Retrieved 23 December 2008.
"Colonial administrators and post-independence leaders in India (1616–2000)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
Great Britain India Office (1819). The India List and India Office List. I. Harrison. pp. 125–7. Retrieved 9 October 2008.
Greater Bombay District Gazetteer. Maharashtra State Gazetteers. I. Government of Maharashtra. 1986. Retrieved 13 August 2008.

Political offices
Preceded by John Horne	Governor of Bombay 1739–1742	Succeeded by John Geekie

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[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.

Goudhurst
Locations in the parish of Goudhurst	Bedgebury Cross Curtisden Green Kilndown
Buildings	Bedgebury Forge Bedgebury Furnace Chingley Forge Chingley Furnace Finchcocks Glassenbury Mill Goudhurst Church Goudhurst station HMP Blantyre House Hope Mill Kilndown Church Pattyndenne Manor Triggs Mill
People	Ernest Benians William Beresford Harry Christophers Gerald Dickens Leonard Franklin Stephen Groombridge Daniel Horsmanden Stephen Law Hopper Levett Richard Milbourne Alfred Mynn William Rootes
Schools	Bethany School
Sport, arts and leisure	Bedgebury Forest Bedgebury National Pinetum Bewl Water