paragraph_text: Sir Matthew Lamb, 1st Baronet (1705 – 6 November 1768) was a British barrister and politician. He was the grandfather of Prime Minister William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne.

paragraph_text: Sir Charles Preston, 5th Baronet ("c." 1735 - 23 March 1800) was a British Major who was stationed in Canada during the American Revolutionary War.

paragraph_text: Sir Thomas Sclater, 1st Baronet (9 July 1615 – 10 December 1684) was an English academic, landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1659.

paragraph_text: Sir Thomas Adams, 6th Baronet (bpt. 17 February 1738 – April 1770) was an officer in the Royal Navy who served during the Seven Years' War.

paragraph_text: Metcalfe is a locality in central Victoria, Australia. At the , Metcalfe had a population of 185. The name 'Metcalfe' probably derives from Baron (Charles) Metcalfe, Governor-General of India and later of Canada, who died in 1846. Metcalfe lies on the Coliban River, downstream from the Malmsbury reservoir.

paragraph_text: Sir Thomas Jaffrey, 1st Baronet (11 April 1861 – 23 July 1953) was a Scottish actuary and a prominent citizen of Aberdeen.

paragraph_text: Sir Abraham Hume, 2nd Baronet (29 February 1749 – 24 March 1838, in London) was a British floriculturist and Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1774 and 1818.

paragraph_text: Sir Edward Beauchamp, 1st Baronet JP(12 April 1849 – 1 February 1925) was a British businessman and Liberal Party politician.

paragraph_text: Sir Thomas Theophilus Metcalfe, 4th Baronet, KCB (2 January 1795 – 3 November 1853) was an East India Company civil servant and agent of the Governor General of India at the imperial court of the Mughal Emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar.

paragraph_text: Sir Thomas Twisden, 1st Baronet (2 January 1602 – 2 January 1683) was an English lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons of England in two periods between 1646 and 1660. He was a High Court judge who presided at the trial of regicides.

paragraph_text: Sir George Amyand, 1st Baronet (26 September 1720 – 16 August 1766) was a British Whig politician, physician and merchant.

paragraph_text: By 1803, at the height of its rule in India, the British East India company had a private army of about 260,000 -- twice the size of the British Army, with Indian revenues of £13,464,561, and expenses of £14,017,473. The company eventually came to rule large areas of India with its private armies, exercising military power and assuming administrative functions. Company rule in India effectively began in 1757 and lasted until 1858, when, following the Indian Rebellion of 1857, the Government of India Act 1858 led to the British Crown's assuming direct control of the Indian subcontinent in the form of the new British Raj.

paragraph_text: Lieutenant-Colonel Sir George James Cullum Welch, 1st Baronet, (20 October 1895 - 28 July 1980), commonly known as Sir Cullum Welch, was a British Army officer, businessman, and member of the City of London Corporation, who served as Lord Mayor of London between 1956 and 1957.

paragraph_text: Sir Bernard Oppenheimer, 1st Baronet (13 February 1866 – 13 June 1921) was a South African-British diamond merchant and philanthropist.

paragraph_text: Sir Thomas Butler, 1st Baronet (died 1642) was an Irish nobleman, the illegitimate son of Sir Edmund Butler of Cloughgrenan and grandson of James Butler, 9th Earl of Ormond.

paragraph_text: Sir Robert Pigot, 6th Baronet DSO MC (3 May 1882 – 27 December 1977) was a British Army and later Royal Air Force officer who served in both world wars

paragraph_text: Sir George Bowyer, 6th Baronet and 2nd Baronet, KStJ, GCSG, KCPO (3 March 1783 – 1 July 1860), was a British politician. He sat in the House of Commons in two periods between 1807 and 1818, first as a Tory and then as a Whig.

paragraph_text: Colonel Sir Alexander Don, 5th Baronet of Newton Don (died 1815) was a Scottish soldier who served as a British Army officer during the French Revolutionary Wars.

paragraph_text: Sir William Mackinnon, 1st Baronet (13 March 1823 – 22 June 1893) was a Scottish ship-owner and businessman who built up substantial commercial interests in India and East Africa. He established the British-India Steam Navigation Company and the Imperial British East Africa Company.

paragraph_text: Captain Sir Harold Malcolm Bullock, 1st Baronet MBE (10 July 1889 – 20 June 1966) was a British soldier and Conservative Party politician.

Question: when did the employer of Sir Thomas Metcalfe, 4th Baronet take over India?
Answer: 1757