Prinsep

Prinsep

Prinsep may mean any of several notable members of the British Prinsep family descended from John Prinsep, an 18th-century merchant who pioneered indigo production in India as well as the making of cotton fabrics in Bengal, opened a copper mint in India and was a founder of the Westminster Life Insurance Society in London, where he later served as Alderman and in Parliament

*Henry Thoby Prinsep (1793-1878), merchant and Indian civil servant
*James Prinsep (1799-1840), scholar, brother of Henry
*Valentine Cameron Prinsep (1838-1904), painter, son of Henry
*James F. M. Prinsep (1861-1895), footballer, was the grandson of Henry's brother, William.
*Thomas Prinsep of Croxall Hall, Derbyshire, High Sheriff of Derbyshire 1802 [ [http://books.google.com/books?id=9eIMAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA22&lpg=RA1-PA22&dq=%22levett+prinsep%22+croxall&source=web&ots=qKBV5HjfRP&sig=SIMmfLtGjokhVWApPWv4KFb6U4Y&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=8&ct=result#PRA1-PA17,M1 The Old Halls, Manors and Families of Derbyshire, Vol. III, Joseph Tilley, Simkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., London, 1902] ]
*Thomas Levett-Prinsep, heir to his uncle Thomas Prinsep and son of Theophilus Levett of Wychnor Hall, resided at Croxall Hall, Derbyshire, Justice of the Peace and landowner [ [http://www.andrewspages.dial.pipex.com/dby/kelly/croxall.htm Croxall, Derbyshire, Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, London, 1891, The Andrews Pages, andrewspages.dial.pipex.com] ]


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