Roger Drake (mai kula da mulkin mallaka)

Roger Drake (an haife shi a shekara ta 1721 ko 1722) ya kasance mai gudanarwa na Birtaniya a Kamfanin Gabashin Indiya . Ya yi aiki a matsayin Bengal" id="mwCQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="List of Governors of Bengal">Shugaban Fort William a Bengal tsakanin 1752 da 1756 kuma daga baya aka tsawata masa saboda ayyukansa a lokacin Siege na Calcutta a 1756.

 Tarihin rayuwa 
An haife shi a shekara ta 1721 ko 1722, Drake  dan dan dan kudi ne Roger Drake, na kamfanin Drake da Long da ke Leadenhall Street kuma sanannen darektan Kamfanin Gabashin Indiya.  Drake ya shiga aikin Kamfanin Gabashin Indiya kuma ya isa Bengal a ranar 26 ga Mayu 1737. Ya tashi ta hanyar matsayi kuma ya zama Shugaban Fort William a ranar 8 ga watan Agusta 1752 bayan mutuwar William Fytche .  [Tushen da aka buga da kansa?] [self-published source?]

A watan Afrilu na shekara ta 1756, Siraj ud-Daulah ya zama Nawab na Bengal kuma ya nemi ya tsawata wa kamfanin saboda cin zarafin haƙƙin kasuwancin su. Ya rubuta wasika ga Kamfanin Faransa da na Burtaniya yana neman su cire duk ganuwar da ke Chandannagore da Calcutta. Faransanci sun amsa da basira suna da'awar cewa suna gyara gine-ginen da ke akwai kawai yayin da Drake ya amsa cewa yana inganta tsaro idan yaƙi da Faransa. Siraj Ud Daulah ya yi fushi da martani da sautin Drake kuma ya fara yin makirci don azabtar da kamfanin. A ranar 16 ga Yuni 1756, Siraj Ud Daulah ya kusanci Calcutta tare da sojoji 30,000 kuma a cikin kwanaki hudu an kama garin da Fort. A lokacin da aka kewaye Drake ya bar mukaminsa kuma tare da wasu 'yan jami'an sun nemi mafaka tare da mata da yara a cikin jiragen ruwa da aka rataye a kusa.  Daga baya, shaidu sun ba da rahoton cewa mutanen da ya bar sun harbe jirginsa yayin da ya tashi daga kogi.  A lokacin da ba ya nan an sanya John Zephaniah Holwell a matsayin mai kula kuma ya jagoranci tsaron har sai da suka mika wuya a yammacin 20 ga Yuni. Daga baya aka kori Calcutta kuma an tsare sauran Turawa a cikin Black Hole na Calcutta . 

Drake ya kunyata shi da ayyukansa a Siege kuma an gudanar da bincike don bincika ayyukansa. Kamfanin ya cire shi daga mukaminsa a ranar 13 ga Nuwamba 1757.  Robert Clive ne ya gaje shi a matsayin Gwamna, wanda zai sake kama Calcutta bayan Yaƙin Plassey kuma ya kafa Mulkin kamfani a Indiya. Duk da kunyar da ya yi, Drake ya amfana daga biyan diyya da lalacewar Mir Jafar bayan yakin Plassey, kuma a cikin 1759 ya koma Ingila tare da 'yan uwansa takwas na Kamfanin da wadata mai yawa.

 Rayuwa ta mutum 
Ya auri Mary Coales a ranar 10 ga Janairun 1743 kuma suna da 'yar Millicent. Bayan mutuwar Maryamu a ranar 6 ga Oktoba 1749 ya auri 'yar'uwarta Martha Coales tare da ita ya haifi wasu yara uku, Roger, Richard, da Nathaniel.

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