subs. phr. (old).—The Hon. East India Company.
1808. Lord Minto in India (1880), 184. Preparations … to save JOHNNY COMPANY’S cash.
1852. Memoirs of Colonel Mountain, 297. JOHN COMPANY, whatever may be his faults, is infinitely better than Downing Street.
1880. The Saturday Review, 14 Feb., p. 220. Doubt as to whether there were any such person as JOHN COMPANY.
