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 South Park Street Cemetery, Calcutta - Part 1 [Holmes and Co]
| Description | Transcribed from Bengal Obituary. A compilation of tablets and monumental Inscriptions from various parts of Bengal and Agra Presidencies. By Holmes and Co., printed by W Thacker and Co 1851. | | Date transcribed | 2009-08-22 | | Transcribed by | Peter Bailey | | Comment | South Park Street Burial Ground begins on page 106 of the book and ends on page 176 - listing all inscriptions found in that cemetery as at 1851.
Records transcribed to date are from the establishment up to 1799 inclusive. |
| | Surname | Becher | | | First Name(s) | Richard | | | Year | 1782 | | | Inscription | Sacred to the Memory of an honest man, this humble stone records the name and fate, (the latter, alas! How unequal to his worth) of Richard Becher, Esq., late member of the Board of Trade; and once of the Council of this Presidency. Thro' a long life passed in the service of the Company, what his conduct was the annals of the Company will shew. On this tablet sorrowing friendship tells, that having reached, in a modest independence, what he deemed the honorable reward of a life of service to enjoy it; he returned in the year 1774 to his native land, where private esteem and public confidence awaited, but where misfortune also overtook him. By nature, open, liberal and compassionate; unpractised in guile himself and not suspecting it in others, to prop the declining credit of a friend, he was led to put his all to hazard and fell the victim of his own benevolence; after a short pause and agonizing conflict, bound by domestic claims to fresh exertions; in 1781 he returned to the scene of his earlier efforts, but the vigour of life was past, and seeing thro' the calamity of the times his prospects darken, in the hopeless efforts to re-erect the fortunes of his family, under the pang of disappointment, and the pressure of the climate; a worn mind and debilitated body sunk to rest. Unerring wisdom ordained, that his reward should not be of this world, and removed him to an eternity of happiness, Nov. 17th, 1782; Aetat suae 61. |
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Transcribed from Holmes and Co - Bengal Obituary, and photographs of headstones at South Park Street Cemetery, Calcutta.
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