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	'''Rawson Hart Boddam''' (1734 – 20 May 1812, [[Bath, Somerset\|Bath]]) was the former [[List of Governors of Bombay\|Governor]] of the [[Bombay Presidency]] during the rule of the [[East India Company]] in [[British India]] from 1784 to 1788.		'''Rawson Hart Boddam''' (1734 – 20 May 1812, [[Bath, Somerset\|Bath]]) was the former [[List of Governors of Bombay\|Governor]] of the [[Bombay Presidency]] during the rule of the [[East India Company]] in [[British India]] from 1784 to 1788.

	Boddam entered East India Company service in 1752.<ref name=EurMag >T. P. A., 'To the Editor of the European Magazine' [Transcription of Boddam's epitaph in Bath Abbey], ''[[The European Magazine, and London Review]]'', April 1816, p. 296</ref> In 1760 he married Mary Sclater, sister of the [[Eliza Draper]] for whom [[Laurence Sterne]] wrote his ''[[Journal to Eliza]]'',<ref>Arnold Wright & William Lutley Sclater, ''Sterne's Eliza: Some Account of her life in India'', 1922, p. 21</ref> though Mary died soon after the birth of a son Charles (1762-1811) and is buried in [[St. Thomas Cathedral, Mumbai]]<ref>"Here lies the body of Mary Boddam, wife of Rawson Hart Boddam, who departed this life the 9th day of July Anno Domini 1762, aged 18 years." Inscription quoted in Wright & Sclater, p. 29; see also, on Charles Boddam, p. 185-6.</ref>		Boddam entered East India Company service in 1752.<ref name=EurMag >T. P. A., 'To the Editor of the European Magazine' [Transcription of Boddam's epitaph in Bath Abbey], ''[[The European Magazine, and London Review]]'', April 1816, p. 296</ref> In 1760 he married Mary Sclater, sister of the [[Eliza Draper]] for whom [[Laurence Sterne]] wrote his ''[[Journal to Eliza]]'',<ref>Arnold Wright & William Lutley Sclater, ''Sterne's Eliza: Some Account of her life in India'', 1922, p. 21</ref> though Mary died soon after the birth of a son [[Charles Boddam\|Charles]] (1762-1811) and is buried in [[St. Thomas Cathedral, Mumbai]]<ref>"Here lies the body of Mary Boddam, wife of Rawson Hart Boddam, who departed this life the 9th day of July Anno Domini 1762, aged 18 years." Inscription quoted in Wright & Sclater, p. 29; see also, on Charles Boddam, p. 185-6.</ref>

	Rawson Hart Boddam was the first Governor of Bombay to be paid entirely by salary, at an annual rate of nearly £10,000. By a second wife, Eliza Maria Tudor, he had nine children, and settled at Capel House, [[Bulls Cross, Enfield\|Bull's Cross, near Enfield]] on his return to England.<ref name=WSp185>Wright & Sclater, p. 185</ref> He died 'aged 78 years' in May 1812.<ref name=EurMag /> In the 1920s a portrait was in the possession of Mrs. Hungerford Meyer Boddam, of Capel House, [[Guildford]].<ref name=WSp185 />		Rawson Hart Boddam was the first Governor of Bombay to be paid entirely by salary, at an annual rate of nearly £10,000. By a second wife, Eliza Maria Tudor, he had nine children, and settled at Capel House, [[Bulls Cross, Enfield\|Bull's Cross, near Enfield]] on his return to England.<ref name=WSp185>Wright & Sclater, p. 185</ref> He died 'aged 78 years' in May 1812.<ref name=EurMag /> In the 1920s a portrait was in the possession of Mrs. Hungerford Meyer Boddam, of Capel House, [[Guildford]].<ref name=WSp185 />

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[[File:Epitaph of Rawson Hart Boddam.jpg|thumb|right|The [[epitaph]] of Rawson Hart Boddam, Governor of Bombay (1784 - 1788), in [[Bath Abbey]]]]
'''Rawson Hart Boddam''' (1734 – 20 May 1812, [[Bath, Somerset|Bath]]) was the former [[List of Governors of Bombay|Governor]] of the [[Bombay Presidency]] during the rule of the [[East India Company]] in [[British India]] from 1784 to 1788.

Boddam entered East India Company service in 1752.<ref name=EurMag >T. P. A., 'To the Editor of the European Magazine' [Transcription of Boddam's epitaph in Bath Abbey], ''[[The European Magazine, and London Review]]'', April 1816, p. 296</ref> In 1760 he married Mary Sclater, sister of the [[Eliza Draper]] for whom [[Laurence Sterne]] wrote his ''[[Journal to Eliza]]'',<ref>Arnold Wright & William Lutley Sclater, ''Sterne's Eliza: Some Account of her life in India'', 1922, p. 21</ref> though Mary died soon after the birth of a son Charles (1762-1811) and is buried in [[St. Thomas Cathedral, Mumbai]]<ref>"Here lies the body of Mary Boddam, wife of Rawson Hart Boddam, who departed this life the 9th day of July Anno Domini 1762, aged 18 years." Inscription quoted in Wright & Sclater, p. 29; see also, on Charles Boddam, p. 185-6.</ref>

Rawson Hart Boddam was the first Governor of Bombay to be paid entirely by salary, at an annual rate of nearly £10,000. By a second wife, Eliza Maria Tudor, he had nine children, and settled at Capel House, [[Bulls Cross, Enfield|Bull's Cross, near Enfield]] on his return to England.<ref name=WSp185>Wright & Sclater, p. 185</ref> He died 'aged 78 years' in May 1812.<ref name=EurMag /> In the 1920s a portrait was in the possession of Mrs. Hungerford Meyer Boddam, of Capel House, [[Guildford]].<ref name=WSp185 />

As a legacy, in 2004 he had a [[33rd Street–Rawson Street|train station]] named after him.

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