| 词条 | John Purling |
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John Purling (c. 1722–1800) was a East India Company commander and director and a politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1770 and 1790. Purling’s parentage is unknown but he may been a native of St Helena. Mr or Captain John Purling was allowed by the East India Company to travel there in 1750 at his own expense. He entered the Company’s shipping service and was commander of the Indiaman Sandwich from 1753 to 1759, and Neptune from 1760 to 1762. Following his last highly profitable China voyage. he resigned the service, and in April 1763 was elected a director of the Company.[1] In 1770 , Purling became Deputy Chairman of the East India Company and purchased the estate of Bradford Peverell in Dorset. Also in 1770 he stood in a by-election at New Shoreham in opposition to two other members of the East Indian Company, Thomas Rumbold and William James. Alhough Purling came second on the poll he was declared elected Member of Parliament by the returning officer who was concerned at the level of bribery and corruption by other candidates. However he was unseated on petition. In 1771 he became Chairman of the East India Company. In a by-election in 1772 he was returned unopposed as MP for East Looe on the interest of John Buller senior. In 1772 the East India Company ran into financial difficulties, and Purling as its chairman was criticized for misleading the proprietors about their position. Although the control of the Company’s affairs really rested with Sulivan and Sir George Colebrook and Purling's responsibility was largely nominal, he refused to stand for re-election as Chairman in 1773. In a speech in Parliament on 23 March 1773, he welcomed parliamentary investigation into the Company’s affairs. In 1774 he took the lead in pressing for the compensation of East India commanders adversely affected by the shipping reforms resulting from the Regulating Act of 1773. In 1774 he was returned unopposed for Weymouth and Melcombe Regis. He became a director of the EIC again in 1777 and remained until 1780. In 1780 he was returned for Weymouth unopposed. He was a member of the St. Alban's Tavern group, which tried to bring about a union between Pitt and Fox. He was returned unopposed for Weymouth again in 1784 but did not stand in 1790. [1] Purling died on 23 August 1800, aged 78. His will mentions property near Weymouth and Ramsay in Huntingdonshire, and also at St. Vincent in the West Indies[1] He built up a large collection of works of art by Raphael, Correggio, Carracci, Guido, Parmegiano, Claude Titian, Tintoretto, S. Ricci, Domenichino, P. Veronese, P. Da Cortona, C. Maratti, Poussin, Murillo, Cuyp, Rubens, Teniers, Zuccarelli, Wilson, Wouvermans, P. Potter, Vanderwerff, Vandervelde, Berchem, Ferg and others. These were auctioned in 1801 after his death.[2] References1. ^1 2 {{cite web| url = http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1754-1790/member/purling-john-1722-1800 |title= PURLING, John (?1722-1800), of Bradford Peverell, Dorset| publisher= History of Parliament Online| accessdate = 23 September 2017}} {{s-start}}{{s-par|gb}}{{s-bef2. ^[https://archive.org/details/catalogueofrenow02whit A Catalogue of the Renowned and Valuable Collection of Pictures of John Purling Esq] | before = Peregrine Cust | before2 = Vice-Admiral (Sir) Samuel Cornish }}{{s-title | title = Member of Parliament for New Shoreham | years = 1770 | with = Peregrine Cust }}{{s-aft | after = Peregrine Cust | after2 = Thomas Rumbold }}{{s-bef | before = Richard Leigh | before2 = John Buller }}{{s-title | title = Member of Parliament for East Looe | years = 1772–1774 | with = John Buller }}{{s-aft | after = Sir Charles Whitworth | after2 = John Buller }}{{s-bef | before = The Lord Waltham | before2 = Sir Charles Davers | before3 = Jeremiah Dyson | before4 = John Tucker }}{{s-title | title = Member of Parliament for Weymouth and Melcombe Regis | years = 1774–1790 | with = Welbore Ellis 1774-1790 | with2 = William Chaffin Grove 1774-1781 | with3 = John Tucker 1774-1778 | with4 = Gabriel Steward 1778-1781 | with5 = Warren Lisle 1780 | with6 = Gabriel Steward 1780-1786 | with7 = William Richard Rumbold 1781-1784 | with8 = Sir Thomas Rumbold 1784-1790 | with9 = George Jackson 1786-1788 | with10 = Gabriel Steward 1788-1790 }}{{s-aft | after = Colonel Sir James Murray | after2 = (Sir) Richard Bempde Johnstone | after3 = Andrew Stuart | after4 = Thomas Jones }}{{s-end}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Purling, John }} 8 : 1720s births|1800 deaths|Directors of the British East India Company|British MPs 1768–74|British MPs 1774–80|British MPs 1780–84|British MPs 1784–90|Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies |
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