Hearing of Raphael Belilios of Danish Settlement, West Bengal.

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(INDIA / CHINA).

Hearing of Raphael Belilios of Danish Settlement, West Bengal.

Sir Lawrence Peel, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court at Calcutta, orders the personal appearance of creditors Joseph Dewk Cohen, Reuben Shirker, David Joseph Uzra (Ezra?), Abraham Baroch, Rammchun Ghose, Simon Elias and Abrahim Benjamin at the hearing of insolvent Raphael Belilios, who had carried on trade in Pollock Street in Calcutta as a merchant and agent. He is at present residing at the Danish Settlement of Serampore in the province of West Bengal. The suit was brought by Simha (Ezra?). Manuscripts in English. One page. Docketed on verso. Folded. 8.25 x 13 inches.

Calcutta: January 9th 1843

Est: $200 - $300

Of Venetian origin, Raphael Belilios (d. 1846 in Calcutta) was the father of the successful opium trader Emanuel Raphael Belilios (1837-1905), chief benefactor of The Belilios Public School in Hong Kong, commonly known today as “BPS.”