de Boigne, Benoît

has biography | a une biographie: Colonial general who fought in India in the late eighteenth century and made a fortune from colonial land holdings there. His first marriage was to an Indian woman variously identified as 'Halime Banu', 'Nur Begam', or "Hélene Bennett". They had two children, a daughter named 'Banu' or 'Anna (1789–1804) and a son named 'Ali Bakhsh' or 'Charles Alexander' (1792-1853). Benoît de Boigne's colonial fortune enabled him to become a major philanthropist in his home town of Chambéry in Savoie.

His brother Claude Pierre Joseph Leborgne de Boigne (1762-1832) was a colonial administrator in Santo Domingo.
was born | est né: 24 March 1751
died in | est mort par: 21 June 1830
has nationality | a la nationalité: France
has type | est de type: depicted
has association with | a une association avec: British East India Company

is referred to by | est référencé par: Wikipedia; Wikipédia - Claude-Pierre-Joseph Leborgne de Boigne (1762-1832); ODNB; William M. Reddy, 'The Anti-Empire of General de Boigne: Sentimentalism, Love, and Cultural Difference in the Eighteenth Century', Historical Reflections / Réflexions Historiques, 34, 1 (2008) 4-25