The church in Madras (Volume 2): being the history of the ecclesiastical and missionary action of the East India Company in the Presidency of Madras in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries . itle-deeds, and muniments. That deed secured the propertyat all events, and the first trustees were : Edward Vaughan, Senior Presidency Chaplain. M. Thompson, Junior Presidency Chaplain. J. H. D. Ogilvie, Civil Service. J. L. Caldwell, Madras Engineers. D. Hill, Civil Service. Bichard Yeldham, Manager, Madras Bank. No arrangement was made for facilitating succession;the lawyers in Madras
The church in Madras (Volume 2): being the history of the ecclesiastical and missionary action of the East India Company in the Presidency of Madras in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries . itle-deeds, and muniments. That deed secured the propertyat all events, and the first trustees were : Edward Vaughan, Senior Presidency Chaplain. M. Thompson, Junior Presidency Chaplain. J. H. D. Ogilvie, Civil Service. J. L. Caldwell, Madras Engineers. D. Hill, Civil Service. Bichard Yeldham, Manager, Madras Bank. No arrangement was made for facilitating succession;the lawyers in Madras did not apparently know of a simpleprocess by which new trustees could be substituted for thosedeceased or retired. Consequently a new deed was executedon February 9, 1821, between the Company and five newtrustees. The new indenture cited what had been done in1816; mentioned that the trustees of that date were either deador retired; and witnessed that in consideration of the sum of fivepagodas the said Company did sell unto the new trustees theland, the building called St. Georges Church, with all rights,&c. This deed mentioned their successors who were to be 1 Archdeacons Act if) < < 2< h_l O < DC D U xh<o Hi o<rO UJ a CHURCHES BUILT BETWEEN 1805 AND 1815 89 appointed under the provisions hereinafter for that purposecontained. The second set of trustees were : William Thomas, Senior Presidency Davis, Junior Presidency H. D. Ogilvie, Madras Civil Garrow, Madras Civil Clarke, Madras Civil Service. The succession was not kept up in a legal way in spite of thisprecaution. Officials came and went, but no alteration wasmade to the names in the trust deed, either by endorsement orotherwise. The second deed was allowed to go on until 1835,when it was endorsed as follows : Be it remembered that onDec. 11,1835 the Hon. Company by the power vested in themdid remove [Thomas, Davis, Ogilvie, Garrow and Cla
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