John Goldsborough Ravenshaw II

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John Goldsborough Ravenshaw II the Second, born in 1777, was the chairman of the British East India Company. He was[[the son of John Goldsborough and Elizabeth Withers Ravenshaw, and the great-grandson of William Withers. His parents, who married in January of 1772, had already given birth to two sons (Reverend Edward and Colonel Thomas William Ravenshaw) when John was born, and gave birth to two more sons after the birth of John (Captains George and William Ravenshaw).

John Goldsborough Ravenshaw was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1801 he married Hannah Bond, a daughter of Commodore Charles John Bond, of the British East India Company's Bombay Marine. They gave birth to six sons; John Hurdis, Edward Cockburn, Henry Thomas, Holden Shepard, Charles Alexander, and Reverend Thomas FitzArthur Torrin Ravenshaw. They also had six daughters. The John Goldsborough Ravenshaws lived on Harley Street in London, England. Ravenshaw became first one of the directors of the British East India Company in 1819, Deputy Chairman from 1829-1831, and chairman in 1832. He remained as director until his death in 1840.

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C.H. & D. Philips, “Alphabetical List of Directors of the East India Company from 1758 to 1858”. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society October 1941.