John Bristow was baptized at St.Botolphs, Bishopsgate, London on 15th January 1750. Son of John Bristow (1701-1768), a director of the Bank of England and Anne Judith (c 1702-1788) daughter of Paul Foissin (variously described as a Wine Merchant in the East Indies or a Banker of Paris).
John Bristow sought his fortune in "the East Indies". He was resident to the Court of Oudh, became British Resident at Lucknow in 1782, and was President of the Calcutta Board of Trade. He died on 20th October 1802 and was buried at South Park Street Burial Ground in Calcutta.
By his wife Emilia Wrangham, he had four children. But I'm more interested in finding out more about his mistress.
She was said to be a native woman, and they had four children between 1774 and 1778. She was dead by 1829, when her will was filed in the Calcutta High Court by a fellow named Mahondy Khanum, who "asked that her debts be paid from what was due her from Bristow's estate".
I don't know if its possible to obtain a copy of that will in the way that British ones can be obtained.
I'm descended from John Bristow and his mistress via their daughter Charlotte Bristow, born in Delhi in 1776. She married Robert Hyde Colebrooke at Calcutta in 1795, and died at Walcot near Bath in Somerset in 1833.
I'd be interested if anyone knows more about Bristow's mistress.