In office 7 April 1739 (1739-04-07) – 15 November 1742 (1742-11-15)
Law was born into a merchant family and became an East India Company writer in Bombay in 1715, graduating in 1720 to become a factor.
In 1739, he was appointed Governor. He was recalled in 1742 following accusations of excessive expenditure in protecting the settlement from the Marathas. He retired to Broxbourne Manor, Broxbourne, England and became a Director of the Company for 1746–49, 1751–54, and 1756.[1]
He died in 1787 at Bedgbury House, Kent, the home of his son-in-law. His daughter Stephana had married John Cartier, the ex-Governor of Bengal. His son, John Law, became the Archdeacon of Rochester.[5]
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^"The Directors of the East India Company, 1754-1790" (PDF). James Gordon Parker. Retrieved 9 December 2017.
^Arthur Jones, ed., Hertfordshire 1731-1800 as recorded in the Gentleman's Magazine, 1993, p. 207
^Octavius Francis Christie, ed., The Diary of the Rev. William Jones, 1777-1821: Curate and Vicar of Broxbourne and the Hamlet of Hoddesdon, 1781-1821, 1929.
^"Law, John (LW756J)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
. Governor of Maharashtra. Archived from the original on 6 February 2009. Retrieved 23 December 2008.
"Colonial administrators and post-independence leaders in India (1616–2000)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
Great Britain India Office (1819). The India List and India Office List. Vol. I. Harrison. pp. 125–7. Retrieved 9 October 2008.
Greater Bombay District Gazetteer. Maharashtra State Gazetteers. Vol. I. Government of Maharashtra. 1986. Retrieved 13 August 2008.
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