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About Thomas Law
Thomas Law, was a British administrator, reformer, and intellectual who significantly influenced British India and the early United States. In India, where he served as collector of revenue for the East India Company. Working with Lord Cornwallis, governor-general of India, Law formulated a major policy known as the Permanent Settlement, which served as the basis for land tenure and taxation policy for natives during subsequent decades of British rule. He returned to England for his health in 1791, taking with him his three illegitimate sons borne of his Indian mistress.
Everything about Thomas Law →- Occupation
- civil servant
- Born
- October 23, 1756, October 23, 1759
- Died
- 1834, July 1834