Joseph Hurlock

Joseph Hurlock (c.1715 – 1793) was a director of the East India Company.

Joseph Hurlock
Born1715
Died
1793
NationalityBritish
OccupationDirector of the East India Company

Life

Hurlock became a writer for British Bencoolen on 23 October 1730.[1] One of his sureties with the East India Company was Joseph Hurlock the London surgeon, and Shirren takes him to be a relation; he mentions also some Hurlocks buried in a Chelsea Moravian Church cemetery as possibly related.[2]

It was 12 July 1731 when Hurlock arrived on the coast of Sumatra.[3] In 1745 he was resident at Moco Moco facing the threat of escaped slaves.[4] He was later deputy-governor at Fort Marlborough, the main Bencoolen fortification, from 1746 to 1752.[5] His successor was Robert Hindley, who paid substantially for Hurlock's resignation.[6]

Fleetwood House, Stoke Newington, in 1750

Hurlock returned to England in 1752, on board the Onslow, captain Thomas Hinde.[7] He married, and resided at Fleetwood House, the home of the Hartopp family.[8] After his wife's death in 1766, the house was let out.[9] He subsequently lived in John Street, London.[10] At the end of his life he was at Lindsey House, 99 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea.[11]

Hurlock was an East India Company director in 1768, and again later.[12] He was a Fellow of the Royal Society and involved with the Society of Arts as a committee chairman.[13] He was buried at Stoke Newington on 15 August 1793, having died aged 78.[14] A monument was created to him, in Stoke Newington Church, by Thomas Banks for his daughter Ann. It records his date of death as 10 August.[15][16]

Family

Hurlock married in June 1755 Sarah Hartopp, daughter of Sir John Hartopp, 4th Baronet, who died in 1766. Their daughter Anne married Edmund Bunney, later known as Edmund Cradock-Hartopp.[17]

Notes
  1. Adam John Shirren (1951). The Chronicles of Fleetwood House. Pacesetter Press. p. 134.
  2. Adam John Shirren (1951). The Chronicles of Fleetwood House. Pacesetter Press. pp. 136, 138.
  3. Adam John Shirren (1951). The Chronicles of Fleetwood House. Pacesetter Press. p. 136.
  4. Richard B. Allen (1 January 2015). European Slave Trading in the Indian Ocean, 1500–1850. Ohio University Press. p. 32. ISBN 978-0-8214-4495-5.
  5. John Stewart (1996). The British Empire: An Encyclopedia of the Crown's Holdings, 1493 Through 1995. McFarland & Company. p. 92. ISBN 978-0-7864-0177-2.
  6. Ian Bruce Watson (1 January 1980). Foundation for Empire: English Private Trade in India, 1659-1760. Vikas. pp. 174–5 note 24. ISBN 978-0-7069-1038-4.
  7. Adam John Shirren (1951). The Chronicles of Fleetwood House. Pacesetter Press. pp. 136–7.
  8. Notes and Queries. Oxford University Press. 1872. p. 364.
  9. A P Baggs, Diane K Bolton and Patricia E C Croot, Stoke Newington: Other estates, in A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 8, Islington and Stoke Newington Parishes, ed. T F T Baker and C R Elrington (London, 1985), pp. 178-184. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/middx/vol8/pp178-184 [accessed 3 January 2017].
  10. Transactions of the Society, Instituted at London, for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce. The Society. 1806. p. 295.
  11. Adam John Shirren (1951). The Chronicles of Fleetwood House. Pacesetter Press. p. 138.
  12. Bengal: Past and Present. Calcutta Historical Society. 1931. p. 158.
  13. Transactions of the Society of Arts. 1788. p. 236.
  14. Cokayne, George Edward (1900). "Complete Baronetage". Internet Archive. Exeter: W. Pollard & Co. pp. 132 note b. Retrieved 3 January 2017.
  15. Gunnis, Rupert (1968). Dictionary of British Sculptors 1660–1851 (Revised ed.). p. 40.
  16. Adam John Shirren (1951). The Chronicles of Fleetwood House. Pacesetter Press. p. 138.
  17. William Robinson (1820). The History and Antiquities of the Parish of Stoke Newington. John Nichols and Son. p. 79.
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