Walter DOWLING (c1747 - )
at  The British Library Oriental and India Office Collections (as at 1 November 2000)

Walter Dowling was employed by the British East India Company.  This was both a commercial and political organisation based in India from 1600 to 1873.   It was formed to share in the East Indian spice trade but settled into trades in cotton, silk, tea and other goods.  

The Company acquired control of Bengal in 1757 and Indian policy until 1773  when the British government intervened to regulate its activity.  Its commercial monopoly was finally broken in 1813 and from 1834 it was merely involved in management on behalf of the British government.  After the Indian Mutiny in 1857 it had that role removed and ceased to exist completely after 1873.  (Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica 1979 Edition)

Source: A Biographical Index of East India Company Maritime Service Officers 1600-1834 by Anthony Farrington.  The British Library 1999 OIR 026.954

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Found in Biographical Index on 1 November 2000