| 词条 | William Fytche |
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| name = William Fytche | image = Thomas Hudson (attributed) - Portrait of William Fytche of Bengal 1752.jpg | birth_date = 1716/17 | birth_place = | death_date = 1753-08-10 | death_place = | other_names = | known_for = President of Bengal | occupation = Colonial Administrator}} William Fytche (1716–10 August 1753)[1] was an administrator of the English East India Company. He served as President of Bengal in the mid-eighteenth century.[2] He was one of the last administrators before the Battle of Plassey allowed the company to firmly establish its rule in India. LifeFytche was the youngest son of William Fytche, Member of Parliament for {{constlk|Maldon}}, and his wife Mary, daughter of Robert Corey of Danbury.[3] He became a member of the Calcutta council of merchants in 1746. In 1749 he went to Murshidabad, to take charge of the factory at Cossimbazaar there.[4] He became President (Governor) on 8 January 1752.[5] According to the Gentleman's Magazine in 1794, he had been in India for 21 years.[6] FamilyFytche married Lucia Beard on 25 February 1744 at Fort St George, Madras, where he was before being sent to Bengal.[7] Their daughter Elizabeth was heir also to Fytche's brother Thomas, of Danbury Place, Essex; she married in 1775 Lewis Disney, who then changed his name to Lewis Disney Fytche.[8] Fytche died of dysentery at the age of 35. After Fytche's death Lucia married William McGuire, having a son and a daughter with him.[9] {{s-start}}{{s-off}}{{succession box |title=President of Bengal|years=8 August 1752 – October 1756| before= Adam Dawson| after=Roger Drake}} {{end}}References1. ^{{cite web|url=https://secureweb1.essexcc.gov.uk/SeaxPAM/ViewCatalogue.aspx?ID=299714|title=Essex Record Office Level: Category Illustrations Level: Fonds Mint Portraits|accessdate=10 August 2015}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Fytche, William}}{{UK-diplomat-stub}}2. ^Provinces of British India - World Statesmen 3. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1690-1715/member/fytche-(fitch)-william-1671-1728|title=Fytche (Fitch), William (c.1671-1728), of Danbury Place, Essex, History of Parliament Online|accessdate=14 August 2015}} 4. ^{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/stream/burmapastandpre01fytcgoog#page/n36/mode/2up|title=Burma past and present, with personal reminiscences of the country|last=Fytche|first=Albert|authorlink=Albert Fytche|volume=1|page=15|year=1878|work=Internet Archive|publisher=C. Kegan Paul & Co.|accessdate=11 August 2015}} 5. ^{{cite book|author=Edward Backhouse Eastwick|title=Madras|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4uMwAQAAMAAJ&pg=PR80|year=1859|publisher=J. Murray|page=80}} 6. ^{{cite book|title=The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_55JAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA955|year=1794|publisher=E. Cave|page=955}} 7. ^{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/stream/genealogist00unkngoog#page/n117/mode/2up|title=The Genealogist|last=Harwood|first=H. W. Forsyth|year=1904|work=Internet Archive|volume=20|page=104|accessdate=11 August 2015}} 8. ^{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/stream/visitationsofess14metc#page/656/mode/2up|title=Publications of the Harleian Society: The visitations of Essex by Hawley, 1552; Hervey, 1558; Cooke, 1570; Raven, 1612; and Owen and Lilly, 1634 : to which are added miscellaneous Essex pedigrees from various Harleian manuscripts, and an appendix containing Berry's Essex pedigrees|volume=14|year=1879|work=Internet Archive|page=657|accessdate=11 August 2015}} 9. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.mocavo.co.uk/A-Genealogical-and-Heraldic-History-of-the-Landed-Gentry-of-Great-Britain-Ireland-Volume-2-2/779247/118|title=A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain & Ireland|volume=2|last=Burke|first=Bernard|year=1879|page=118|accessdate=11 August 2015}} 6 : 1716 births|1753 deaths|Presidents of Bengal|English businesspeople|Administrators in British India|18th-century British people |
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