Robert Adams - Governor of EIC Malabar
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The ‘Notorious’ country
trader Robert Adams
April 8th 1738 , an obscure epitaph for a British
gentleman came to the notice of observant readers - At his House in Cavendish-Square, aged 64, Robert Adams, Esq; one of
the Directors of the East-India Company, and formerly Governor of Tellicherry
in India for the said Company. The above Gentleman, when in India, being once a
Hunting, and separated from his Company in the Woods, was attack'd by a Tyger,
who seized him by the Shoulder, but he at the fame pierced the Tyger with a
lance through the Body, and they both fell together; but happily disengaging
himself, he kill'd the Creature on the Spot, and hath ever since born a Tyger
rampant in his Coat of Arms. He is said to have dy'd worth £100,000/- which he has left to his two
only Daughters, both unmarry'd.