Thomas Law (1756–1834), Date of Birth, Date of Death

Thomas Law (1756–1834)

Anglo-American reformer

Date of Birth: 23-Oct-1756

Date of Death: 01-Jan-1834

Profession: civil servant

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Thomas Law (October 23, 1756 – 1834), was a reformer of British policy in India, where he served as collector of revenue for the East India Company.
Working with Lord Conwallis, 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, and emigrated to the United States in 1794.
He settled in Washington, D.C., where he became a major investor in property and a prominent civic leader in the developing new capital.
A widely read intellectual, he had grand visions for bringing Enlightenment ideas to bear in reshaping both colonial British India and the early American republic. When he left India, Law took his three illegitimate sons, borne of his Indian mistress, to England.
He eventually brought his sons to the US.
The eldest, George, died in 1796.
John attended Harvard and Edmund attended Yale.
In 1796 Law married Elizabeth Parke Custis,the eldest granddaughter of Martha Custis Washington.
They had one daughter, Eliza Custis Law, who married Nicholas Rogers of Baltimore.