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			\| death_date = 21 June 1690
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			\| occupation = Governor of [[St Helena]] (before 1676) <br/ > Head of Bombay East India Charter military forces (1677-1681) <br/ > Rebel Governor of Bombay (1683-84) <br/ > Captain of [[HMS Reserve (1650)]], then [[HMS Assistance]]
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	'''Captain Richard Keigwin''' (died 21 June 1690) was a rebel governor of [[Bombay]] (now Mumbai) in 1683-84 during the East India Company's charter over Bombay. He was never recognized in this position by the Company. He acted as governor of Bombay with the support of the militia, whose salaries had been cut by the Governor, [[Joshua Child]].<ref>Strachey, Ray; Oliver Strachey		'''Captain Richard Keigwin''' (died 21 June 1690) was a rebel governor of [[Bombay]] (now Mumbai) in 1683-84 during the East India Company's charter over Bombay. He was never recognized in this position by the Company. He acted as governor of Bombay with the support of the militia, whose salaries had been cut by the Governor, [[Joshua Child]].<ref>Strachey, Ray; Oliver Strachey
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'''Captain Richard Keigwin''' (died 21 June 1690) was a rebel governor of [[Bombay]] (now Mumbai) in 1683-84 during the East India Company's charter over Bombay. He was never recognized in this position by the Company. He acted as governor of Bombay with the support of the militia, whose salaries had been cut by the Governor, [[Joshua Child]].<ref>Strachey, Ray; Oliver Strachey
Keigwin's Rebellion (1683-4): An Episode in the History of Bombay
Oxford Clarendon Press, 1916</ref> He was also supported by the population at large who welcomed the withdrawal of trade monopolies during this period.<ref>Chaudhuri, Sashi Bhusan;
Civil disturbances during the British Rule in India, 1765-1857,
World Press, 1955, p.1; (also Strachey, p.82)</ref>

==In India==
Keigwin had served as governor of [[St. Helena]] before coming to Bombay in 1676. At the time Bombay was under the control of the [[English East India Company]] however Keigwin was an independent settler. Shortly after arriving he was put in charge of a military force and gained a seat on the governing council of Bombay. From 1677-1681 he served as the head of company military forces in Bombay, but the Bombay trading operations were under the control a governor based in [[Surat]] with a deputy governor at Bombay. In 1679 Keigwin was involved in winning a significant naval victory against the [[Mahrattas]]. During this time the head government authority in Bombay was [[Sir Henry Oxenden, 3rd Baronet|Henry Oxenden]]. In 1682 [[Sir John Child, 1st Baronet|John Child]] became governor of East India Company Operations based in Surat. He received orders to reduce the cost of operations in Bombay and sent his brother-in-law [[Charles Ward (Deputy Governor of Bombay)|Charles Ward]] to serve as his deputy in Bombay. The troops in Bombay did not like having their wages cut so they revolted and declared Keigwin governor.

Keigwin then sent a letter to England asking [[Charles II of England|Charles II]] to take direct control of Bombay again stating that the East India Company had failed. After running Bombay for about a year Sir [[Thomas Grantham]] arrived to straighten things out. Grantham worked out a general pardon, allowed Keigwin to retain the salary he had collected while acting as governor and then brought Keigwin back to England with him.

==Later life and death==
In May 1689 Keigwin was appointed captain of the frigate [[HMS Reserve (1650)|HMS ''Reserve'']]; from which he was shortly moved into [[HMS Assistance (1650)|HMS ''Assistance'']]. Early in 1690 was sent to the West Indies under the orders of Commodore [[Lawrence Wright (commodore)|Lawrence Wright]]. At the attack on [[St Kitts]] on 21 June, he was landed in command of the marine regiment, and fell at the head of his men as he was leading them on to the assault of [[Basseterre]].<ref>{{cite DNB|wstitle=Keigwin, Richard|volume=30}}</ref>

==References==
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==Sources==
*[[John Keay]]. ''The Honorable Company: A History of the English East India Company''. New York: Macmillan, 1991. p. 137-139.
*{{cite ODNB|title=Keigwin, Richard (d. 1690)|id=15254|first=John Knox|last=Laughton|first2=Søren|last2=Mentz|year=2004}}

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