John Company
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- Author(s) Foster, William
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1926
- Pages 286pp; illus
- Publisher John Lane
- Place Published London
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- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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A 'domestic history' of the Company comprising a series of 16 essays some of which had previously been published in scholarly journals. Deals with the Company from its origins to the early 1630s. Contains chapters on its early London premises including Crosby House; 'Some royal stockholders; 'Company's hospital at Poplar'; 'The Company's Suregon General'; Its dockyard at Blackwall; 'Poplar Chapel'; John Dean; 'Anglo Indian Boarding School'; 'The India Board'; etc. A companion volume to W Foster, 'The East India House'