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 Death Announcements 1731-1831
| Date transcribed | 2000-00-00 | | Transcribed by | Steve van Dulken |
| | Surname | Thorp | | | First names | Samuel | | | Rank/ occupation | Writer | | | Unit | EIC | | | Death date | 15 Jul 1791 | | | Place of death | Madras  | | | Source | Gentleman's Magazine | | | Date | Dec 1791 | | | Page number | 1158 | | | Detail | At Madras, aged 18, Mr Samuel Thorp, son of Mr T. of Aldgate. This young gentleman went out a writer in the East India Company’s service last spring. He was a youth of the most promising hope, in whom gentleness of manners and fortitude of mind were happily united. He had been only a few weeks in Madras, but in that time has much engaged the regard of Sir Charles Oakley, the governor, who thus expressed himself in a letter to a friend: “I should have been exceedingly happy to have manifested my attention to your recommendation of Mr Thorp, had it pleased providence to spare his life, but I am sorry to inform you that this young gentleman died last night after a short but severe illness much regretted by every one who knew him. I had him many times at my house, and was much pleased with his disposition and manners, which seemed to be most amiable”. He had heated himself by dancing, drank freely of lemonade, and afterwards slept in his palanquin, which brought on a flux that proved fatal on the fifth day. |
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