Henry Vansittart (June 3, 1732 - 1770 or 1771) was Governor of Bengal and a notorious rake. June 3 is the 154th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (155th in leap years), with 211 days remaining. ... Events February 23 - First performance of Handels Orlando, in London June 9 - James Oglethorpe is granted a royal charter for the colony of Georgia. ... 1770 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... 1771 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... A database query syntax error has occurred. ...

Vansittart was born in London. His father, Arthur van Sittart (1691-1760), and his grandfather, Peter van Sittart (1651-1705), were both wealthy merchants and directors of the Russia Company. Peter, a merchant adventurer, who had migrated from Danzig to London about 1670, was also a director of the East India Company. The family name is taken from the town of Sittard in Limburg. Educated at Reading School and at Winchester College, Henry Vansittart joined the society of the Franciscans, or the Hellfire Club, at Medmenham, his elder brothers, Arthur and Robert, being also members of this fraternity. St. ... Merchants function as professional traders, dealing in commodities that they do not produce themselves. ... Generally a director is a person or one of a body of persons appointed to manage the affairs of a government agency, company, corporation, group or project. ... Ivan IV of Russia demonstrates his treasures to the English ambassador (1875) Muscovy Company (also called Russian Company or Muscovy Trading Company, Polish Kompania Moskiewska), was a trading company chartered in 1555. ... Motto: Nec temere, nec timide (Neither rashly nor timidly) Voivodship Pomeranian Municipal government Rada miasta GdaÅ„ska Mayor PaweÅ‚ Adamowicz Area 262 km² Population  - city  - urban  - density 460 524 (2004) Ranked 6th 1 100 000 1761/km² Founded City rights 997 1263 Latitude Longitude 54°40N 18°60E... East India Company was the name of several historic European companies chartered with the monopoly of trading with Asia for their respective countries. ... Sittard-Geleen is a municipality in the southeastern Netherlands. ... Limburg is the name of two different adjoining provinces: Limburg (Netherlands) in the south of the Netherlands, its capital is Maastricht. ... Reading School is a grammar school in the town of Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom. ... Winchester College is a public school in the city of Winchester in Hampshire, in the south of England. ... The Hellfire Club was an exclusive English club that met irregularly from 1746 to around 1763, run by Sir Francis Dashwood. ... Medmenham is a village in Buckinghamshire, England. ... Robert Vansittart (December 28, 1728 - January 31, 1789) was an English jurist, antiquarian and rake. ...

In 1745 he entered service of the East India Company and sailed for Fort St David. Here he showed himself very industrious, made the acquaintance of Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive and rose rapidly from one position to another. As a member of the council of Madras he helped to defend the city against the French in 1759. // Events May 11 - War of Austrian Succession: Battle of Fontenoy - At Fontenoy, French forces defeat an Anglo-Dutch-Hanoverian army including the Black Watch June 4 – Frederick the Great destroys Austrian army at Hohenfriedberg August 19 - Beginning of the 45 Jacobite Rising at Glenfinnan September 12 - Francis I is elected... Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive of Plassey (September 29, 1725 - November 22, 1774) was the statesman and general who established the empire of British India. ... Madras refers to: the Indian city of Chennai, formerly known as Madras, the former Indian state, now known as Tamil Nadu a former province of British India, with its capital at the Indian city of Madras (now Chennai): see Madras Presidency a type of fabric which first originated there. ... 1759 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ...

In July 1760 he went to Bengal as president of the council and governor of Fort William. Courageously facing the difficulties of his new position, which included a serious lack of funds, he deposed the subadar of Bengal, Mir Jafar, whom he replaced by his son-in-law, Mir Kasim, a circumstance which increased the influence of England in the province. He was, however, less successful in another direction. Practically all the company's servants were traders in their private capacity, and as they claimed various privileges and exemptions this system was detrimental to the interests of the native princes and gave rise to an enormous amount of corruption. Vansittart sought to check this, and in 1762 he made a treaty with Mir Kasim, but the majority of his council were against him and in the following year this was repudiated. Reprisals on the part of the subadar were followed by war and, annoyed at the failure of his pacific schemes, the governor resigned and returned to England in 1764. 1760 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... Fort William is a British Raj fort in the Indian city of Calcutta and was named after King William of Orange. ... 1762 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... An act of war - the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan during World War II War is a state of widespread conflict between states, organisations, or relatively large groups of people, which is characterised by the use of violent, physical force between combatants or upon civilians. ... 1764 was a leap year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ...

To defend his conduct in Bengal, Vansittart published some papers as A Narrative of the Transactions in Bengal from 1760 to 1764 (London, 1766). His conduct was attacked before the board of directors in London, but events seemed to prove that he was in the right, and in 1769 he became a director of the company, having in the previous year obtained a seat in parliament. He was now sent on an important mission to India. He left England in September 1769, but the ship in which he sailed was lost at sea late in 1770 or early in 1771. 1766 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... 1769 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... The Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the supreme legislative institution in the United Kingdom and British overseas territories (it alone has parliamentary sovereignty). ...

One of his five sons was Nicholas Vansittart, 1st Baron Bexley. Nicholas Vansittart, 1st Baron Bexley (29 April 1766-8 February 1851), English politician, was the fifth son of Henry Vansittart (d. ...

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