Tag Archives: East India Company

Gordon family’s service that stretched through the generations

Posted on September 22, 2024 by insidecroydon

SUNDAY SUPPLEMENT: Among the thousands of young men who passed through the gates of the East India Company’s Addiscombe academy in the 19th Century, one Scot rose through the ranks in a career that has been carefully traced by DAVID … Continue reading →

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Addiscombe military college’s professor who was all at sea

Posted on March 3, 2024 by insidecroydon

SUNDAY SUPPLEMENT: A friend and colleague of Sir Walter Scott and JMW Turner, a painter to Queen Victoria and her family, John Schetky was fondly remembered as a professor at Addiscombe military college. Using the Minster archive, DAVID MORGAN traces … Continue reading →

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Spectacular history of Addiscombe college is required reading

Posted on July 16, 2023 by insidecroydon

SUNDAY SUPPLEMENT: It played a significant part of the history of Croydon, and of Britain, yet today is largely forgotten. DAVID MORGAN reviews an important and surprising new book about Addiscombe Military College Kate Birbeck’s new book Addiscombe Military College … Continue reading →

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Banker from Waddon who helped finance independent America

Posted on March 12, 2023 by insidecroydon

SUNDAY SUPPLEMENT: One memorial in Croydon Minster’s churchyard dates back to the early 19th Century, and is for a man who knew Alexander Hamilton and had connections with George Washington. By DAVID MORGAN Another grave in the grounds of Croydon … Continue reading →

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No longer Taboo: Addiscombe gets signs of its East India past

Posted on February 10, 2017 by insidecroydon

Finally, after nearly a decade, it’s in black and white: the East India Estate Conservation Area is there for all to see on road signs in that part of Addiscombe. Special road signs were unveiled last month in the presence … Continue reading →

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