Henry Vansittart

Henry Vansittart was the English Governor of Bengal from 1759 to 1764.

Vansittart was born in Bloomsbury in Middlesex, the third son of Arthur van Sittart , and his wife Martha, daughter of Sir John Stonhouse, 3rd Baronet. His father and his grandfather, Peter van Sittart , were both wealthy merchants and directors of the Russia Company. Peter, a merchant adventurer, who had migrated from Danzig to London about 1670, was also a director of the East India Company. The family name is taken from the town of Sittard in Limburg, the Netherlands. They settled at Shottesbrooke in Berkshire.

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