A History of the Mahrattas v1.c13.30

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[Sir George Oxenden was subsequently Governor of Bombay, resident in Surat, from September 1668, when he took charge of the Island from the King's representative, until his death in July 1669. He was born in 1620, son of Sir James Oxinden of Dene, co. Kent. He was knighted at the Restoration. The mausoleum containing his remains and those of his brother Christopher (ob. April 18, 1659), which is one of the chief objects of interest in Surat, bears a long Latin inscription describing him as ‘Anglorum in India, Persia, Arabia, Præses, Insulæ Bombayensis Gubernator.’ (I.G. Bom., 1909, i. 348.) See Dict. Nat. Biog., xliii. 9 f.; Hedges, Diary, ii. 223, 241, 250, 303; Bruce, ii. 107.