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Sir James Rivett-Carnac, 1st Baronet (11 November 1784 – 28 January 1846) was the governor of the Bombay Presidency of British India from 1839 to 1842. His family name came about in 1801, when his father was made testamentary by his brother-in-law General John Carnac, husband of (Elizabeth Rivett ) (1751–1780). Born in Bombay in 1784,〔Terence R. Blackburn, ''Justice for the Raja of Sattara?'' (APH Publishing, 2007) p. 139〕 Carnac served the East India Company in India from 1801〔''The Wellesley Papers: The Life and Correspondence of Richard Colley Wellesley, Marquess Wellesley, 1760-1842'' vol 2 (H. Jenkins, 1914) p. 316〕 and was a director of the Company for various periods between 1827 and 1838.〔C.H. & D. Philips, 'Alphabetical List of Directors of the East India Company from 1758 to 1858', in ''Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society'' October 1941〕〔Charles Campbell Prinsep, ''Record of Services of the Honourable East India Company's Civil Servants in the Madras Presidency, from 1741 to 1858'' (1885) p. xxii〕 He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in May 1838.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Library and Archive Catalogue )〕 He was Member of Parliament (MP) for Sandwich from 1837 to 1839, and was made a baronet in 1836. Rivett-Carnac is the ancestor of the Rivett-Carnac baronets, of whom the most well-known member today is the bag designer Lulu Guinness (born 1960), daughter of the last baronet. ==References== 〔 *(Genealogy of the Rivett-Carnacs ). Retrieved 10 March 2009. * 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「James Rivett-Carnac」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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