Sir Henry Oxenden, 3rd Baronet

{{Short description|English colonial administrator (1645–1709)}}

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Sir Henry Oxenden, 3rd Baronet (1645 – 1709) was an English colonial administrator who served as the governor of Bombay from 1677 to 1681.

He was the only British person present at the coronation of Chatrapati Shivaji Maharaj in Raigad Fort on 6 June 1674, and is depicted in a later painting of the event.{{cn|date=January 2025}}

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He was the second son of the M.P. of Sandwich Sir Henry Oxenden, 1st Baronet, and his second wife Elizabeth Meredith, and the nephew of Sir George Oxenden.

He was Colonel of a regiment of the Kent Militia in 1697.[http://lib.militaryarchive.co.uk/library/Miscellaneous-Volumes/library/An-Epitomized-History-of-the-Militia/files/assets/basic-html/page377.html Col George Jackson Hay, An Epitomized History of the Militia (The Constitutional Force), London: United Service Gazette, 1905, p. 377.]{{Dead link|date=January 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}