| 词条 | Josias Du Pre |
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LifeHe joined the civil service of the East India Company in 1752, as a factor, and rose through a succession of positions. He spent a period in England in the 1760s, and married there.[2] He purchased the Wilton Park Estate in Buckinghamshire from the Basil family, in 1760,[4] or around 1770.[3] Du Pre was Governor of Madras from 1770 to 1773. He was mostly preoccupied with the construction of fortifications there. His authority was circumscribed: Eyre Coote, the military commander, and Sir John Lindsay who had overall command in the East Indies, left him little room in which to operate.[2] Du Pre at the end of his life became a Fellow of the Royal Society, owing the honour to his appointment two decades earlier of Alexander Dalrymple as his deputy.[4] He died at Beaconsfield.[3] FamilyHe married Rebecca Alexander, daughter of Nathaniel Alexander and sister of James Alexander, 1st Earl of Caledon, another nabob: Du Pre Alexander, 2nd Earl of Caledon, son of the first Earl, was named after Josias.[5] Of the children of Josias and Rebecca:
Josias Du Pre's sister Esther married Paul Porcher, and was mother of the MP Josias Du Pré Porcher.[8] Notes1. ^Also Du Pré, Dupré or Dupre. {{s-start}}{{S-off}}{{Succession box | title= Governor of Madras2. ^1 2 {{cite book|author=Henry Davidson Love|title=Indian Records Series Vestiges of Old Madras|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h2nkEiSSDaYC&pg=PA1|accessdate=20 April 2012|publisher=Mittal Publications|pages=1–3|id=GGKEY:GE1U0JNYH0Q}} 3. ^1 'Parishes: Beaconsfield', A History of the County of Buckingham: Volume 3 (1925), pp. 155-165. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=42542 Date accessed: 20 April 2012. 4. ^{{cite book|author1=Christa Jungnickel|author2=Russell McCormmach|title=Cavendish: The Experimental Life|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XpyvPTRwLoQC&pg=PA264|accessdate=20 April 2012|year=1999|publisher=Bucknell University Press|isbn=978-0-8387-5445-0|page=264}} 5. ^{{ODNBweb|id= 93359|title=Alexander, Du Pre|first=P. J.|last=Jupp}} 6. ^1 historyofparliamentonline.org, Du Pré, James (1778–1870), of Wilton Park, Beaconsfield, Bucks. 7. ^thepeerage.com, Eliza Dupré. 8. ^historyofparliamentonline.org, Porcher, Josias Du Pré (?1761–1820), of Hillingdon House, Mdx. and Winslade House, Devon. | before= Charles Bourchier | after= Alexander Wynch | years=1770–1773}}{{s-end}}{{authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Du Pre, Josias}} 6 : 1721 births|1780 deaths|English merchants|Directors of the British East India Company|Governors of Madras|Fellows of the Royal Society |
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