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Sir John Child, 1st Baronet

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British diplomat and governor

For other people named John Child, seeJohn Child (disambiguation).

Arms of Child Baronets (of the City of London):*Vert, two bars engrailed between three lion's faces or*^[1]

Sir John Child, 1st Baronet (died 1690) was a governor ofBombay, andde facto (although not officially) the first governor-general of theEnglish settlements inIndia.^[2]

Life

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Born inLondon, Child was sent as a child to his uncle, the chief of the factory atRajapur. on 27 October 1681, he was appointed chief of theEast India Company's affairs atSurat and Bombay, while at the same time his namesake, stated to be unrelated by theOxford Dictionary of National Biography,Sir Josiah Child, was governor of the company at home.

The two men guided the affairs of the company through the period of struggle between theMughals andMarathas. They have been credited by history with the change from unarmed to armed trade on the part of the company; however, both were actually loath to quarrel with the Mughal Empire.War broke out withAurangzeb in 1689, but in the following year Child had to sue for peace, one of the conditions being that he should be expelled from India. He escaped this expulsion by his death on 4 February 1690, and was as English president of Surat and Bombay succeeded byBartholomew Harris.

Armorials

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Burke's Armorials 1884 gives his arms as follows: (Child of Surat, East Indies and Dervill, Essex, bart. created 1684, extinct 1753):Vert, two bars engrailed between three leopard's faces or. Crest:A leopard's face or between 2 laurel branches proper. Motto:Spes Alit (Hope Nourishes). These arms are in no way similar to those of SirJosiah Child or Sir Francis Child, ofChild & Co bankers, which seems to confirm the lack of any family relationship to the other Child baronetcies.

References

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^Betham, The Baronetage of England, Vol. III, 1803, p. 71
^Watson, I. B. "Child, Sir John, baronet (1637/8–1690)".Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press.doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/5289. (Subscription,Wikipedia Library access orUK public library membership required.)

This article incorporates text from a publication now in thepublic domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Child, Sir John".Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 6 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 135.