George Morton Pitt (died 1756) was an administrator of India. Year 1756 ( MDCCLVI) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a For usage see British rule in India Company rule in India (sometimes Company Raj, " raj," lit
George Morton hailed from the well-known Pitt family of England: like his family predecessor Thomas Pitt, he became Governor of the Madras Presidency at Fort St. George. Thomas Pitt ( 5 July 1653 &ndash 28 April 1726) born at Blandford Forum, Dorset, to a rector and his wife was a Madras Presidency, also known as Madras Province and known officially as Presidency of Fort St Fort St George (or historically White Town is the name of the first British fortress in India, founded in 1639 at the coastal city of Madras (modern He succeeded James Macrae in this post on 14 May 1730. Events 1264 - Battle of Lewes: Henry III of England is captured in France making Simon de Montfort the Year 1730 ( MDCCXXX) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a [1] Little appears to be known of him; he is barely mentioned in the annals of the East India Company. The Honourable East India Company ( HEIC) referred to most commonly as the East India Company, also historically and colloquially as John Company, or
During his Presidency, the Dubashes or the chief merchants of the Company became powerful and influential. One of them, Alaganathan Pillai, built the Ekambareshwar Temple during Pitt's tenure. Another dubash, Sunkurama, had a garden at the bend of the Cooum river south of Periampet which was taken over by the British in 1735 for the construction of a new weaver's village called Chintadripet. Cooum or Kuvam is one of the 2 rivers of Chennai, India, the other one being the Adyar River. By that time Sunkurama had fallen into disgrace and was succeeded by his colleague Thambu Chetty as the chief merchant. The Government resolved in October 1734 to erect a weaving town in the site of Sunkurama's garden and to permit only spinners, weavers, washers, painters and the necessary attendants of the temple to settle in the village. A cowl was granted on these terms and Bemala Audiappa Narayana helped in the peopling of the village, which grew to contain nearly two hundred and fifty families within two years after its foundation.
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- ^ Thomas Seccombe, ‘Macrae, James (c.1677–1744)’, rev. I. B. Watson, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 , accessed 14 Jan 2008
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