​CROMMELIN, CHARLES ( ? - ? )

Governor : son of Marc Antoine Crommelin, of a Huguenot family : joined the E. I. Co.'s service in Bombay, 1732 : Governor of Bombay, 1760–7 : returned to England, had great losses in trade, returned to India, 1772, as a free merchant : was residing at Canton, 1777 : was British Consul at Goa, 1784 : it has been suggested that this was the Charles Cromelin (sic) who died Dec. 25, 1788, aged 81, and was buried at the old English Cemetery, Kalkapur, Murshidabad.