Jacob Bosanquet
Jacob Bosanquet Jr. was a British merchant who was chairman of the East India Company.
Life
He was born in Hamburg, the son of the merchant Jacob Bosanquet. He became a junior partner in his cousin's firm of Bosanquet & Willermin, silk merchants, for several years before being elected to the Direction of the East India Company in 1782. After serving three terms as a Director, he was elected Deputy Chairman of the company three times.Bosanquet acquired the manors of Broxbournebury, Hoddesdonbury and Baas. and was pricked High Sheriff of Hertfordshire for 1803–04.