An Example of a Bengal Pilot Service Nomination

 

 

Source: BL: IOR: L/MAR/8/4 - Nominations of candidates for appointments to the Indian Navy and the Bengal Pilot Service submitted by the Finance, Home and Public Works Committee for Royal Approval - 9th November 1858 to 21st November 1861

 

There is a hand-written, but neatly compiled alphabetical index at the rear of this relatively small volume.

 

Example:-

 

p.7

 

‘At a Finance, Home + Public Works

Committee, the 25th February 1859

.

.....The undermentioned Candidates for

Bengal Pilot Service, appeared before

the Committee and produced the

Certificates required by the Regulations,

vizt

.

Name

By whom nominated

Thomas Reddie

Francis Thurlow Rayner

Lord Stanley

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