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 Death Announcements 1845-1854
| Transcribed by | Steve van Dulken |
| | Surname | Chapman | | | First names | John | | | Rank / occupation | Railway projector | | | Death date | 1854 ? | | | Place of death | India  | | | Source | Gentleman's Magazine | | | Date | Nov 1854 | | | Page number | 523 | | | Detail | Lately. In India, by cholera, John Chapman, esq. Mr Chapman was a native of Loughborough. His great talents and extensive knowledge of Indian affairs had rendered him a high authority on all matters connected with the internal resources and government of that country. He projected the Great Indian Peninsular Railway Company, and was for some time its manager; and at the time of his decease was engaged on a plan for the irrigation of India, by means of canals and reservoirs, which had already received encouragement from the East India Company. He was a man of extraordinary mechanical genius, and was just succeeding in developing the practical working and efficiency of atmospheric railways. His works on ""The Cotton and Commerce of India,"" and ""The Principles of Indian Reform,"" may be considered standard authorities on the subjects treated of. He was also a contributor to the Westminster Review. His philosophical habits of thought, his purity of character, his great intellectual resources and scientific attainments, point to him as a remarkable man. His exertions in the cause of India have enshrined his memory in the grateful respect of the people of that vast continent. He died in the high noon of his powers, and apparently just realising some of the cherished objects of his arduous life. |
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