Charles Bourchier (died 1810) was an official of the East India Company and was

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from 1767 to 1770. Bourchier was the elder son of Richard Bourchier,

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and his wife Sarah Hawkins, daughter of George Hawkins, of Clayhill, Epsom, Surrey. He joined the service of the

East India Company The East India Company (EIC) was an English, and later British, joint-stock company that was founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874. It was formed to Indian Ocean trade, trade in the Indian Ocean region, initially with the East Indies (South A ...

. Bourchier was appointed

on 25 January 1767. He held the post until 31 January 1770. Joseph Foster The royal lineage of our noble and gentle families. Together with their paternal ancestry .. Publication date 1887
/ref> Bourchier married Anne Foley, daughter of Thomas Foley, M.P. for Herefordshire, on 6 May 1776. In about 1783 he purchased Colney House at

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, and built a mansion at a cost of about £53,000. He served as

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in 1788. He sold Colney House before 1795.'Parishes: Shenley', in A History of the County of Hertford: Volume 2, ed. William Page (London, 1908), pp. 264-273. British History Online(accessed 5 November 2017)
/ref> Bourchier died at the age of 82, on 2 February 1810. His widow died aged 80 at Hadham, Hertfordshire on 14 May 1814.

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