Joseph Hurlock Explained

Joseph Hurlock
Birth Date:	1715
Death Place:	1793
Nationality:	British
Occupation:	Director of the East India Company

Joseph Hurlock (c.1715 – 1793) was a director 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]

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 and References

1. Book: Adam John Shirren. The Chronicles of Fleetwood House. 1951. Pacesetter Press. 134.
2. Book: Adam John Shirren. The Chronicles of Fleetwood House. 1951. Pacesetter Press. 136, 138.
3. Book: Adam John Shirren. The Chronicles of Fleetwood House. 1951. Pacesetter Press. 136.
4. Book: Richard B. Allen. European Slave Trading in the Indian Ocean, 1500–1850. 1 January 2015. Ohio University Press. 978-0-8214-4495-5. 32.
5. Book: John Stewart. The British Empire: An Encyclopedia of the Crown's Holdings, 1493 Through 1995. 1996. McFarland & Company. 978-0-7864-0177-2. 92.
6. Book: Ian Bruce Watson. Foundation for Empire: English Private Trade in India, 1659-1760. 1 January 1980. Vikas. 978-0-7069-1038-4. 174–5 note 24.
7. Book: Adam John Shirren. The Chronicles of Fleetwood House. 1951. Pacesetter Press. 136–7.
8. Book: Notes and Queries. 1872. Oxford University Press. 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. Book: Transactions of the Society, Instituted at London, for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce. 1806. The Society. 295.
11. Book: Adam John Shirren. The Chronicles of Fleetwood House. 1951. Pacesetter Press. 138.
12. Book: Bengal: Past and Present. 1931. Calcutta Historical Society. 158.
13. Book: Transactions of the Society of Arts. 1788. 236.
14. Web site: Complete Baronetage. Cokayne. George Edward. 1900. Internet Archive. W. Pollard & Co.. 132 note b. 3 January 2017. Exeter.
15. Book: Gunnis, Rupert. Rupert Gunnis. Dictionary of British Sculptors 1660–1851. 40. Revised. 1968.
16. Book: Adam John Shirren. The Chronicles of Fleetwood House. 1951. Pacesetter Press. 138.
17. Book: William Robinson. The History and Antiquities of the Parish of Stoke Newington. John Nichols and Son. 1820. 79.