James Rivett-Carnac

[3][4][5] He succeeded Robert Grant as Governor of the Bombay Presidency in 1838, serving for three years in that role.

[6] He was a Member of Parliament (MP) for Sandwich from 1837 to 1839 and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in May 1838.

[7] Born James Rivett, his surname was legally changed to Rivett-Carnac by royal licence in 1801 when his father James, a member of the Bombay Government Council and chairman of the East India Company, was made testamentary by his brother-in-law, General John Carnac, the husband of Elizabeth Rivett (1751–1780).

His descendants include the sailor Charles Rivett-Carnac and the Canadian police commissioner Charles Rivett-Carnac, as well as the colonial administrator Sir Richard Temple and his son Sir Richard Carnac Temple and the fashion designer Lulu Guinness.

[7] His younger brother, Admiral John Rivett-Carnac (1796–1869), was an early explorer of Western Australia.