{{short description|British merchant (1755-1828)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox person | name = Jacob Bosanquet | image = <!-- filename only, no "File:" or "Image:" prefix, and no enclosing [[brackets]] --> | alt = <!-- descriptive text for use by speech synthesis (text-to-speech) software --> | caption = | birth_name = <!-- only use if different from name --> | birth_date = 1755 | birth_place = Hamburg | death_date = 30 July 1828 | death_place = | nationality = | other_names = | occupation = Merchant | years_active = | known_for = | notable_works = }}
'''Jacob Bosanquet Jr.''' (1755 – 30 July 1828<ref>[http://thepeerage.com/p22349.htm ThePeerage.com]</ref>) was a British merchant who was chairman of the [[East India Company]].
==Life== He was born in Hamburg, the son of the merchant Jacob Bosanquet. He became a junior partner in his cousin's firm of Bosanquet & Willermin, silk merchants, for several years before being elected to the Direction of the East India Company in 1782. After serving three terms as a Director, he was elected [[Deputy Chairman of the British East India Company|Deputy Chairman of the company]] three times (1797, 1802 and 1810) and [[Chairman of the British East India Company|Chairman of the company]], in each of the years 1798, 1803 and 1811).<ref>{{cite book|title=The India list and India Office list|year=1819|publisher=Harrison and Sons|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b2NPAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA110 }}</ref>
Bosanquet acquired the manors of Broxbournebury, Hoddesdonbury and Baas.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.compassion-in-business.co.uk/cityscape/brickendon/woods.htm |title=A History of Brickendon |access-date=9 March 2014 |archive-date=13 March 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080313152950/http://www.compassion-in-business.co.uk/cityscape/brickendon/woods.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref> and was pricked [[High Sheriff of Hertfordshire]] for 1803–04.
==Family== Bosanquet was married 27 September 1790 to Henrietta, daughter of [[George Armytage (politician)|Sir George Armytage, Baronet]] and had two sons and two daughters.<ref>A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great ..., Volume 3 By John Burke [https://archive.org/details/agenealogicalan00goog/page/n339]</ref> His son [[George Jacob Bosanquet]] was also High Sheriff of Hertfordshire.
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