Josias Du Pré
Josias Du Pre or Du Pré (1721 – 1780) was an English merchant, a director of the East India Company and Governor of Madras.[1]
He purchased the Wilton Park estate in Buckinghamshire from the Basil family, in 1760,[2] or around 1770.[3]
Du Pre was Governor of Madras from 1770 to 1773.
He died at Beaconsfield.[3]
Family
He 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.[4] Their son James Du Pre was a Member of Parliament.[2] Their daughter Rebecca married Sir Philip Grey Egerton, 9th Baronet; Sir Philip Grey Egerton, 10th Baronet was their son.
Josias Du Pre's sister Esther married Paul Porcher, and was mother of the MP Josias Du Pré Porcher.[5]
Notes
- ^ Henry Davidson Love. Indian Records Series Vestiges of Old Madras. Mittal Publications. pp. 1–3. GGKEY:GE1U0JNYH0Q. Retrieved 20 April 2012.
- ^ a b http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1790-1820/member/du-pratilde-james-1778-1870
- ^ a b '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.
- ^ Jupp, P. J. "Alexander, Du Pre". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/93359. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1790-1820/member/porcher-josias-du-pratildecopy-1761-1820