Jonathan Duncan (Governor of Bombay)
Jonathan Duncan (15 May 1756 – 11 August 1811) was Governor of Bombay from 27 December 1795 until his death in 1811.
He began his career in India in 1772, and in 1788 was appointed superintendent and resident at Benares by Lord Cornwallis, where he helped stamp out the practice of infanticide. In 1795, he became governor of Bombay, and held that post for the rest of his life (nearly sixteen years).
In 1791 he started the Sanskrit College at Benares for the study of Hindu law and Philosophy. (In 1958 the Sanskrit College became a university and in 1974 the name was changed to Sampurnanand Sanskrit University.)
His son, also named Jonathan Duncan, was an advocate of reforming the monetary system.
External links
Stephens, Henry Morse (1888). "Duncan, Jonathan (1756-1811)". In Stephen, Leslie. Dictionary of National Biography 16. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 170.
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Jonathan Duncan (swimmer)
Jonathan Duncan (born 16 May 1982 in Lae, Papua New Guinea) is a swimmer from New Zealand, who competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, in the 200, 400 and 1500m freestyle.
Duncan then went onto complete a bachelor of business degree at Massey University in Auckland in 2004. In 2005, Jonathan started his Master of Entrepreneurship program at the University of Otago and started working for software company Siliconcoach. During this time the Academy Cinema in Dunedin, New Zealand was established with business partner Jeffrey Broughton.
In 2006 Duncan relocated to Edinburgh, Scotland to work as Business Development Manager for Siliconcoach and work on other business initiatives.
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Jonathan Duncan (currency reformer)
Jonathan Duncan (1799–1865) was a British advocate of reforming the monetary system.
He was born in Bombay while his father (also called Jonathan Duncan) was governor there. He graduated with a B.A. from Trinity College, Cambridge in 1821.
In the years up to 1841, he wrote a number of history books about Russia, religious wars in France, and Guernsey. In 1846, he was editor of a newspaper called The Sentinel, and presented a petition to Parliament criticizing Frederic Festus Kelly, chief inspector of letter-carriers.
In 1846, he wrote the tract "How to reconcile the rights of property, capital, and labour" for the Currency Reform Association. In 1847 he wrote a tract for the National Anti-Gold Law League, arguing that the size of the circulation should be determined by supply and demand. He opposed bullionism and Sir Robert Peel's banking and monetary laws, and the monetary policies of Samuel Jones-Loyd.
Other publications included "The Principles of Money demonstrated, and Bullionist Fallacies refuted" (1849) and "The Bank Charter Act: ought the Bank of England or the People of England to receive the Profits of the National Circulation?" (1858).
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