Editing Streynsham Master (section)

== Early career ==

Streynsham Master had a distinguished career in the [[East India Company]] (EIC) right from his early days. He served as the Acting President of the company's [[Factory (trading post)|factory]] (trading post) at [[Surat]] during the visit of the factory's President [[Gerald Aungier]] to the new colony at [[Bombay]]. After the return of Aungier, Master served for some time as a member of the EIC Council. In 1670 he led the English in the successful defence of his company in Surat against the [[Marathas]]. In 1676, even before the then Agent [[Sir William Langhorne, 1st Baronet|Sir William Langhorne]]'s removal from power, Master was nominated in advance as the next Agent of Madras in the case of emergency. In the meantime, until the end of Langhorne's tenure, Master served for a time as the Agent of the company's factory at [[Masulipatnam]] and then Bengal, where he was tasked with introducing a new administrative system for the [[factory (trading post)|factories]] on the [[Hooghly River]]; lastly he was sent back to [[Fort St. George, India|Fort St. George]] to take office as the second member of the EIC Council.<ref>{{cite book|first=James|last=Talboys Wheeler|author-link=James Talboys Wheeler|title=Madras in the Olden Time|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WWZK3tZ8P4UC|volume=1|year=1861|location=Madras|publisher=J. Higginbotham|page=101|isbn=9788120605534}}</ref>