Rawson Hart Boddam

Boddam entered East India Company service in 1752.

[1] In 1760 he married Mary Sclater, sister of the Eliza Draper for whom Laurence Sterne wrote his Journal to Eliza;[2] but Mary died soon after the birth of a son Charles (1762–1811) and is buried in St. Thomas Cathedral, Mumbai.

[3] Rawson Hart Boddam was the first Governor of Bombay to be paid entirely by salary, at an annual rate of nearly £10,000.

By a second wife, Eliza Maria Tudor, he had nine children, and settled at Capel House, Bull's Cross, near Enfield on his return to England.

[1] In the 1920s a portrait was in the possession of Mrs. Hungerford Meyer Boddam, of Capel House, Guildford.