The John Bargrave Collection
James Pound (1669 - 1724)
Alias Jacobi Pound [Alias]Astronomer, physician, and clergyman. He worked for the East India Company as chaplain to the merchants of Fort George, Madras, and Zhoushan Island (formerly Anglicized as Chushan Island), where a Company factory was established in teh 1670s. He donated to the Ashmolean a collection of plants and animals collected in India, which "evidently included a number of specimens preserved in spirits, displayed for visual effect in glass jars in the windows of the Museum" (MacGregor, 2). Dictionary of National Biography entry: http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/22637 Other biography: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Pound Relevant locations: Workplace or place of business Fort St. George
Workplace or place of business Zhoushan Island
People linked to person: James Pound was a donor to Ashmolean Museum (1683-)
James Pound was a employed by East India Company (1600-)