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Ceylon

... Robert Bruce China tea had, of course, been known to European drinkers 150 vears prior to that and the fortunes of t.hfi East India Company were largely based on the China tea trade. ...

Published: Saturday 19 August 1967
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 74 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

by ANDREW NORFOLK

... safe place.” Expert Peter Seaby told the coroner that the coin was made from bullion taken to the Royal Mint by the East India Company, and that 1729 was the only year in which fiveguinea pieces were ...

Published: Friday 17 May 1991
Newspaper: Scarborough Evening News
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 91 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

PART 111

... which reference has just been made — so far as it related to Chrxstopher Rawson's career at sea in the service of the East India Company 1n the China Seas and elsewhere in the Far East. Pictures reproduced accompany an account of the Company’s merchantmen ...

Published: Saturday 23 July 1966
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 325 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Pohlmann ilSon FRENCH LEAVING INDIA

... I occupy Pondicherry. Ka r ikal . 'Mahe and Yanaon. taking over the last relics of the empire founded by the French East India Company in the_l7th century. Mie agreement is a sequel to a special assembly, held near Pondicherry, three days ago at which ...

Published: Thursday 21 October 1954
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 100 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

There appeared to be some doubt In Westminster today whether the

... ADMINISTERED TO PRESENT CONTINUED BY THE EAST INDIA COMPANY, AND THE DIAMOND | THE —— BECAME THE PROPERTY OF THE BRITISH ARMY. —— — SS —— ee ey WHILST AWAITING THE DECISION VICTORIA ri OF THE EAST INDIA COMPANY AS WAS ASKED TO THE DISPOSAL OF THE JEWEL ...

Published: Thursday 19 February 1953
Newspaper: Yorkshire Evening Post
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 375 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Different aspects of India

... members took part - Barbara Archer on the Taj Mahal, May Beachill on Indian culture and religion, Audrey Dickens on the East India Company, Barbara Jones on different aspects of India, Christine Nendick on Gandhi and Betty Wigglesworth on the Indian viceroy ...

Published: Saturday 06 December 1997
Newspaper: Scarborough Evening News
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 109 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

£1 Reward

... modern, but tbe ring and key are over years o*l. and were worn by the or.ginal owner, a Captain in the service of the East India Company. when he fell in battle in India. ISO 9. and are therefore family relics highly prized. Anyone delivering the same to ...

Published: Friday 13 November 1953
Newspaper: Barnoldswick & Earby Times
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 119 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

France to return

... will take ; eon November 1. The four ienients concerned are Pondtn. Mahe and Yanaon of the empire founded by French East India Company in •• ‘eventeenth century. _ A Special AsSembly at Pondirheiry representing the 320.000 :silialiitants of the four ...

Published: Tuesday 19 October 1954
Newspaper: Bradford Observer
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 117 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

co-op Teas (drunk by one British household in five) make as delicious a brew in to-day’s teapots as did China

... South shape a coffee rather than a tea ash? Kensington design to modern eyes. It was presented “to ye Committee of ye East India Company by ye Right Honourable George Lord Berkeley of Berkeley Castle,” who described himself as trie Hearty Lover” of that ...

Published: Tuesday 28 March 1950
Newspaper: Sheffield Daily Telegraph
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 117 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

France completes hand-over of territories in India New Delhi, Monday. INDIA and France, to-day, signed a treaty ..

... for 2110 years. they were the last remains of the former French empire on the sub-continent established by the French East India Company. Pondicherry was the main settlement and the headquarters of the French Administration. Chandemagor. a fifth settlement ...

Published: Monday 28 May 1956
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 162 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

FAMOUS TEAPO

... famous conical pot, in shape a coffee rather than a tea design to modern eyes. It was presented to ye Committee of ye East India Company by ye Right Honourable George Lord Berkeley of Berkeley who described himself as a true Hearty Lover of that distinguished ...

Published: Saturday 18 March 1950
Newspaper: Sheffield Weekly Telegraph
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 150 | Page: 30 | Tags: none