Elijah Impey
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Elijah Impey was a British judge who served as the first chief justice of the Supreme Court of Judicature at Fort William in Bengal, Chief Justice of the Sadr Diwani Adalat and Member of Parliament fo
Elijah Impey
Painting by Johan Zoffany of the family of Elijah and Mary Impey in Calcutta in 1783
Wall monument to Elijah Impey and his wife in St Paul's Church, Hammersmith, London UK
Mary Impey
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Mary, Lady Impey was an English natural historian and patron of the arts in Bengal. The wife of Sir Elijah Impey, the Chief Justice of Bengal, she established a menagerie in Calcutta and commissioned
Elijah Impey
…a fellow in 1757. He was called to the bar in 1756. He then practised law for seventeen years on the western circuit. On 18 January 1768, he married Mary Reade, the daughter of a baronet from Oxfordshire. They had five sons and two daughters. Impey also had two illegitimate children with Elizabeth Curbyshire…
A Dwarf Flying Squirrel hanging from a Kuru Creeper, from the Impey Album, Shaikh Zayn al-Din, c. 1780, 20 7/8 in. x 29 17/32 in. (53 cm x 75 cm)
Orange-headed thrush, Geokichla citrina, one of the paintings from which Latham described the species
A painting of the now extinct pink-headed duck made by Bhawani Das.