A partial listing of Prinsep family members: •
Augustus Prinsep (1803–1830), eighth and youngest son of John Prinsep, sketcher, writer, civil servant, born in
London, attended
Haileybury College, then clerk with
East India Company,
Calcutta, attempted to settle in
Australia but, unsuccessful, died aboard ship •
Charles Robert Prinsep (1789–1864),
Lincoln's Inn barrister and economist, graduate of
St John's College, Cambridge, Judge Advocate General of Bengal, resided at
Belvedere Estate, Calcutta, son of patriarch John Prinsep •
Charles Robert Prinsep,
Singapore merchant for whom Singapore's Prinsep Street and Prinsep Place are named, owner of the Prinsep nutmeg plantation, 6,700 nutmeg shrubs covering much of what is now downtown Singapore • Edward Augustus Prinsep, (1828–1900), Calcutta merchant, son of William Prinsep of Calcutta • Lieut.
Frederick Bruce Prinsep (d. 1879), soldier,
21st Hussars,
3rd European Light Cavalry, decorated for his role in the
Indian Rebellion of 1857 •
George Augustus Prinsep Esq., (d. 1839) prominent Anglo-Indian journalist, cotton merchant, salt manufacturer, shipping owner, Calcutta, member,
Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal, assumed editorship of
The Courier newspaper of Calcutta after failure of early business venture, publisher
Calcutta Gazette, regained fortune through salt interests, son of merchant John Prinsep • George Levett-Prinsep,
Norfolk Crescent,
London , 1866 •
Henry Charles Prinsep (1844–1922), manager of family estates in Western Australia, civil servant,
Chief Protector of Aborigines, artist, son of Charles Robert Prinsep, and brother of 'May' Prinsep (who married
Hallam Tennyson, elder son of
Alfred, Lord Tennyson), born in Calcutta, died in
Busselton,
Western Australia, home of his wife Josephine Bussell's family • Lt. Col. Henry Auriol Prinsep (1836–1914), soldier, Bengal Staff Corps, his daughter Mary married Hon. William Fitzwilliam James Dundas •
James Prinsep (1799–1840),
numismatist,
linguist, artist, scholar, Secretary of the
Asiatic Society, son of John Prinsep, brother of Henry Thoby Prinsep and William Prinsep (executor of his estate), died at sea returning to England, 1840 •
Henry Thoby Prinsep (1793–1878), merchant and civil servant, Bengal Civil Service, named director of
East India Company 1849, served on the Council of India 1858–1874, son of patriarch John Prinsep, lived at
Little Holland House,
Kensington, London, one of London's sought-after salons of the age, and The Briary,
Isle of Wight, amateur oil painter, married in 1835 to Sarah Monckton Pattle (
Calcutta, 1816–
Brighton, 1887), and brother-in-law of photographer
Julia Margaret Cameron • Sir Henry Thoby Prinsep (1836–1914), judge of the High Court, Calcutta • Arthur Thoby Haverleigh Prinsep (1862–1938), Sir Henry Thoby's son, Australian and New Zealand-based author, actor, poet, journalist and footballer. Wrote under the name F. D'A. C. De L'Isle. He is also the father of
Gordon De Lisle. •
John Prinsep, vicar's son, patriarch of the Prinsep family in India, indigo planter, entrepreneur, arrived in India a few weeks after
Warren Hastings became Governor General in 1773, amassed a large fortune in indigo production, retired to frescoed mansion on London's
Leadenhall Street later occupied by the India Office,
London alderman,
Member of Parliament • James Hunter Prinsep,
Bengal Civil Service •
James F. M. Prinsep (1861–1895), footballer, was the grandson of Henry's brother, William. •
Thomas Prinsep (1800–1830), engineer, amateur artist, Calcutta, India, younger brother of
James Prinsep •
Thomas Prinsep of
Croxall Hall,
Derbyshire,
High Sheriff of Derbyshire 1802, former India merchant, artist, cattle breeder, son of patriarch John •
Thomas Levett-Prinsep, heir to his uncle Thomas Prinsep and son of Theophilus
Levett of
Wychnor Park Derbyshire. On the early death of Prinsep, his seat at Croxall Hall, Derbyshire, devolved onto his nephew Levett, who took the name Levett-Prinsep, resided at Croxall Hall, Derbyshire,
Justice of the Peace and landowner •
Valentine Cameron Prinsep (1838–1904), painter, son of Henry Thoby Prinsep, trained to become an Indian merchant but turned to art instead, author of
Imperial India, a book of travel writing • Anthony Leyland Val Prinsep (1888-1942), son of Valentine Prinsep, theatre manager and producer who married
Marie Lohr and
Margaret Bannerman. •
William H. Prinsep (1794–1874), merchant, Palmer & Co.,
Carr, Tagore and Company, founder, Union Bank (failed), founder, Bengal Tea Association, founder, Bengal Coal Company, owner, Bengal Salt Company (inherited from his brother George),
Sheriff,
Fort William,
Calcutta, amateur artist (studied under
George Chinnery), retired to Hyde Park Place,
London, secretary,
Great Western Railway,
South Devon Railway, one of seven sons of patriarch John Prinsep. Appointed secretary of the
Oswestry & Newtown Railway in September 1855 but appointment rescinded in October 1855 because shareholders thought that he would be biased in favour of the Great Western Railway. , 1866 • The tree
Prinsepia that grows in India, China and Bangladesh, is named for
James Prinsep, secretary of the Asiatic Society of Calcutta. ==Notes==