Sir john shore biography of donald

&#;SHORE, JOHN, first Baron Teignmouth (–), born in St. James's Street, Piccadilly, on 8 Oct. , was the elder son of Thomas Shore of Melton Place, near Romford, sometime supercargo to the East India Company, by his wife Dorothy, daughter of Captain Shepherd of the East India Company's naval service.

At the age of fourteen young Shore was sent to Harrow, where he was placed in the fifth form, and had Halhed, Sheridan, and Francis, lord Rawdon (afterwards marquis of Hastings), among his contemporaries. In his seventeenth year Shore was removed to a commercial school at Hoxton for the purpose of learning bookkeeping, and towards the close of he sailed for India as a writer in the East India Company's service.

Sir john shore biography of donald

Soon after his arrival in Calcutta in May , he was appointed to the secret political department, in which he remained for about twelve months. In September he was nominated assistant to the board of revenue at Moorshedabad. Owing