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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 | Burdett | | | First names | Bagenel William | | | Rank/ occupation | Officer & Baronet |  | Unit | Bengal Army & British Army | | | Death date | 12 Dec 1840 | | | Place of death | Cheltenham  | | | Source | Gentleman's Magazine | | | Edition | Feb 1841 | | | Page number | 202 | | | Detail | At Cheltenham, aged 70, Sir Bagenel William Burdett, the third Bart. of Dunmore, co. Carlow (1723); a magistrate for Gloucestershire. He was the eldest son of Sir William Vigors Burdett, the second Baronet, by Lady Henrietta, widow of Terence O'Louglan, esq. and dau. of William (O'Brien) , third Earl of Inchiquin. He went to India as a cadet in the Bengal Military Service, in the year 1790. Early in 1792, he was appointed to an Ensigncy in the 52nd Regiment, then serving in the Carnatic. In 1793, he was at the taking of Pondicherry, on the Coromandel coast, where the regiment had many officers killed and wounded. In 1796, he proceeded with the expedition ordered to take possession of the island of Ceylon. In 1798, the 52nd returned to England. Sir B.W. Burdett was, with other officers, left in charge of volunteers for regiments in the Bombay Presidency, After having discharged this duty, he and his comrades embarked on board the Princess Amelia, bound for England; but, after being four days out at sea, the vessel was discovered to be on fire; every effort was made to extinguish the flames, without any favourable result. Sir B.W. Burdett was almost the last to leave the ship, and did not jump overboard till his hair was singed; then seizing a hen-coop, he committed himself to the waves; he was scarcely clear of the ship before she blew up. After the explosion, seeing a brother officer struggling in the water almost exhausted, Sir William gave himn the hen-coop, and struck out to an oar floating at some distance from him. His companion was saved. After supporting himself in the water for upwards of four hours, he was one of the few survivors who was picked up by the boats of a vessel that had perceived the disaster from a distance. Sir William was again landed at Bombay, crossed over to Madras, and sailed a second time for England, and after being taken prisoner, and retaken by an English man of war, he arrived at Portsmouth, having lost every thing... [He married 7 March 1800 Maria, dau. of ther Rev. Henry James Reynett, issue] |
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