What’s the worst thing someone connected to you did?
One of the worst slavers in history 😢
Ran both the East India Company and Royal Africa company. The former starved hundreds of thousands to death in the name of free markets and The latter sent tens of thousands into captivity. He’s so notorious he was at the centre of the UK’s BLM protests.
Quite a shock for a penniless lefty like me I can tell you
It’s not all bad. I’m a direct descendent of man who built this gem of a castle in Llangollen and my gt gt gt gt gt gt gt grandmother was the lesbian lover of Queen Mary 2
The pic is Castell Dinas Bran a real Welsh castle not an English castle built in wales like most of the others
Did you get your dna done? If so what did it say? I was delighted to confirm that I’m more Welsh than English thank God 🤣
One of your East India Company ancestors responsible for one of those mass man-made manufactured famines in British India during the 19th century? Was it before or after the Sepoy Mutiny of 1857 because that massive uprising and EIC’s trade policies, lack of cultural sensitivity that caused it and their initial lack of a decisive response it is was lead to them going out of business, their assets, power and influence being absorbed by the Crown in the 1870’s when they began running India directly as a crown colony. Either way, most British historians today, particularly economic ones, concur that by the mid-19th century, the E-I-C's best days as an effective colonial trade administrator/monopolist mercantile enterprise was well behind it and even to many contemporary mid-late British statesman, businessman, even most commoners, its continued existence back then was predicated by its many past accomplishments. By the 1850's, Geldo, EIC was a gradually dying, crumbling, hollowed-out rump of a once-prosperous multinational corporation.
Their were several mass famine-starvation events caused by British colonial administrators in the 1880’s and 1890’s in India that got so bad that their was a bit of an open diplomatic spat between Washington and London because U.S. relief food aid tankers were being stopped at Indian ports by British imperial comptrollers who were under orders not to permit international relief food shipments reaching starving Indian civilians in New Delhi, Calcutta, Bombay and Kerala.
FWIW, Kerala is one of India’s oldest cities and reportedly where St. Thomas arrived ca. 50 C.E. and preached and even converted a local, powerful Indian king. He was later executed ala martyred when Indian sapees speared him to death in two, separate sections of his body. Kerala, Geldo, about 2,000 years ago, was major part of a lucrative maritime Romano-Indian spices and silk trade network and Roman merchants operating out of their Egyptian ports in Red Sea would travel across the Indian Ocean during certain months of the year and ancient Kerala had a large, thriving Roman-Jewish expat community that St. Thomas mingled with upon arrival. Most of these stories or exploits are detailed in the Apocryphal Book of Thomas if you want to analyze or interested in it from a historical perspective.