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John Goldsborough Ravenshaw was the son of John Goldsborough Ravenshaw (died 1824) and Elizabeth Withers, and the great-grandson of William Withers.
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Some sources claim that Ravenshaw was educated at his father"s college, Trinity College, Cambridge, but there is no documentary evidence of this. They gave birth to six sons. John Hurdis, Edward Cockburn, Henry Thomas, Holden Shepard, Charles Alexander, and Reverend Thomas FitzArthur Torrin Ravenshaw.
They also had six daughters.
The John Goldsborough Ravenshaws lived on Harley Street in London, England. Ravenshaw became first one of the directors of the British East India Company in 1819, Deputy Chairman from 1829–1831, and chairman in 1832.
He remained as director until his death in 1840.
