Thomas Rolt – Wikipedia
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Sir Thomas Rolt (c.1631–1710) [first] [2] was a British official of the East India Company, President of Surat and Governor of Bombay from 1677 to 1681. [3] [4] His father was Edward Rolt of Pertenhall in Bedfordshire; his mother was Edward Rolt’s second wife Mary, a daughter of Sir Oliver Cromwell. [5] [6]
Rolt began his career at the Surat factory of the Company, and was a writer from 1658. He moved to Persia where he was the local chief, agent on the Persian Gulf from 1671 to 1677. [6] [7] [8] During his period as President of Surat, the Company ordered him to cut back expenditure. [9] Rolt pursued a policy that aimed to be even-handed with respect to the Marathas and the Siddis of Gujarat, which brought him criticism from Richard Keigwin. [ten]
In 1682 Rolt returned to England with a fortune. [6] He bought the manor of Sacombe in Hertfordshire in 1688, from Sir John Gore. In the vestry of Sacombe Church, there is a memorial to Rolt, who died in 1710, and to his wife, who died in 1716. [11]
Rolt married Mary, daughter of Thomas Coxe. Edward Rolt the Member of Parliament was their son. [6] Their daughter Constantia married John Kyrle Ernle. [twelfth] The marriage also made Rolt stepfather of Samuel Rolt, another Member of Parliament, and the son of Thomas Rolt of Milton Ernest. [13]
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- ^ Philip J. Stern Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor of History Duke University (25 March 2011). The Company-State : Corporate Sovereignty and the Early Modern Foundations of the British Empire in India: Corporate Sovereignty and the Early Modern Foundations of the British Empire in India . Oxford University Press. P. 63. ISBN 978-0-19-987518-4 . Retrieved 8 August two thousand and thirteen .
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