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| Date transcribed | 2000-00-00 | | Transcribed by | Steve Van Dulken | | Comment | Death announcements from the "Gentleman's Magazine", a journal which is available on Google Books. Any deaths in India, or of deaths elsewhere where there was a mentioned link with India, are included. In a few lengthy obituaries the contents have been summarised by using square brackets. |
| | Surname | Macdonald | | | First names | John | | | Rank/ occupation | Captain |  | Unit | Bengal Engineers | | | Death date | 16 Aug 1831 | | | Place of death | Exeter  | | | Source | Gentleman's Magazine | | | Edition | Jan 1832 | | | Page number | 85 | | | Detail | [Pages 85-87. At his residence, Summerland Place, Exeter, aged 72, John Macdonald, Esq. Fellow of the Royal and Asiatic Societies, formerly Lieutenant-Colonel of the Royal Clan-Alpine regiment. The only son of the celebrated Flora Macdonald, who assisted Prince Charles in evading the English soldiers in 1746. Became a captain in the corps of engineers, Bengal establishment. In 1794-96, at Bencoolen, and at St Helena, he carried out diurnal observations of the variation in the magnetic needle. In 1807 was the chief engineer at Fort Marlborough. An author] |
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