Ewan Law

Ewan Law (1747 – 24 April 1829) was a British politician, MP for Westbury (1795–1800) and Newtown (1802).

He was baptised on 30 October 1747, the son of Edmund Law, later Bishop of Carlisle.

[1] Entering the East India Company in Bengal in 1763, Law rose through the ranks, joining the council in Patna in 1770, becoming junior merchant in 1772, senior merchant in 1776, and company chief in Patna in 1777.

He had numerous connections in British India: his brother Thomas Law was an East India Company official; his wife's brother William Markham was Private Secretary to Governor-General Warren Hastings;[2] a sister married Sir Thomas Rumbold, Governor of Madras; his nephew Edward Law, 1st Earl of Ellenborough later became Governor-General.

He served on the Commission of Naval Enquiry appointed to investigate malpractice in the navy 1802–05, but he was then in ill health, and could not attend regularly.