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[[File:William Joseph Eastwick.jpg|thumb|Portrait of Captain William Joseph Eastwick, by [[Mary Martha Pearson]]]]
Captain '''William Joseph Eastwick''' (1808 – 24 February 1889) was a British military officer and director of the [[East India Company]].

The eldest son of Captain Robert William Eastwick of the [[Bombay Marine]], he was educated at [[Winchester College]], where he was a contemporary of [[Roundell Palmer, 1st Earl of Selborne|Lord Selborne]] and [[Robert Lowe|Lord Sherbrooke]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |date=1 March 1889 |title=Obituary |pages=13 |work=[[The Times]]}}</ref> A younger brother was the Orientalist and politician [[Edward Eastwick|Edward Backhouse Eastwick]].<ref name=":1">{{Cite book |last=Buckland |first=C. E. |title=Dictionary of Indian Biography |publisher=Swan Sonnenschein & Co., Lim |year=1906 |location=London |pages=130-131}}</ref>

Eastwick went out to India in 1826 as an ensign in the [[Bombay Army]].<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" /> He serve in the force of General [[James Welsh (East India Company officer)|James Welsh]] at [[Kolhapur|Kolapore]], as well as in southern Mahratta.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" /> After passing his examination in Persian with distinction, he was appointed to the Political Department.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" /> His first assignment was as an assistant to [[Henry Pottinger|Sir Henry Pottinger]] in Sind. In 1839, he was in charge of negotiations with the Amirs of Hyderabad, which opened the Indus to British trade.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" />

During the [[First Anglo-Afghan War]], he was put in charge of the districts east of the [[Bolan Pass]] and officiated as [[British Residency, Hyderabad|Resident of Hyderabad]]. During the winter of 1841–42, he collected supplies and transport for the army sent to reinforce General [[William Nott]] at [[Kandahar]], for which he received the thanks of the government.<ref name=":0" />

Eastwick returned to England in 1841 and did not return to India. In 1846 or 1847, he was elected to the Court of Directors of the East India Company, eventually becoming its last deputy chairman. When India was [[Government of India Act 1858|brought under the British crown]] in 1858, Eastwick was one of the directors selected to fill seats on the [[Council of India]], where he remained until retiring in 1868.<ref name=":0" />

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* {{NPG name|149237|William Joseph Eastwick}}

[[Category:British East India Company Army officers]]
[[Category:1889 deaths]]
[[Category:Members of the Council of India]]
[[Category:People educated at Winchester College]]
[[Category:Directors of the British East India Company]]
[[Category:British military personnel of the First Anglo-Afghan War]]

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