Who led the English Company's Embassy to Emperor Farrukhsiyar's court?

• The Company appointed John Surman of East India Company's Patna factory, to head an embassy in the emperor Farrukhsiyar's court in 1715. Hence, option 4 is correct.
• He was accompanied by Edward Stephenson, Hugh Barker as secretary, the surgeon William Hamilton, and Kwaja Sarhad, an Armenian merchant.
• In order to get the Farman from Farrukhsiyar, gifts of 2 lakh rupees were sent from Calcutta to Patna for occasionally giving them to the emperor.The company even contemplated renaming Calcutta as Farrukhbandar and the three towns together as a pargana to be known as Farrukhabad.
• Later, the surgeon William Hamilton had “miraculously” cured the emperor and the Company surgeon Gabriel Boughton, whose treatment of Jahanara became successful and these all led to the Farrukhsiyar's final consent to grant the farman 1717.

Additional information

• Sir Thomas Roe served as the ambassador of King James I of England to the court of the Mughal Emperor Jahangir from 1615 to 1619. He played a crucial role in the early British attempts to establish commercial and diplomatic relations with the Mughal Empire.
• Robert Clive (1725–1774), often referred to as "Clive of India," was a British soldier who is best known for his leadership in the Battle of Plassey and for laying the foundation of British rule in India.
• Gerald Aungier (1635–1677) served as the Governor of Bombay from 1669 to 1677 and is often credited with laying the foundations for the city's future growth as one of the most important urban centers in the British Empire.