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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 | Cleveland | | | First Name(s) | Augustus | | | Year | 1784 | | | Inscription | Here lie the remains of Augustus Clevedland, [Clevland] Esquire, late Collector of the Revenues; Judge of Dewanny Adawlut of the Districts of Bhaugulpore, Momghyr, Rajmahal, &c.&c. He departed this life 12th January 1784, at sea on board the 'Atlas' Indiaman, Captain Cooper, proceeding to the Cape for the recovery of his health, aged 29 years. His remains, preserved in spirits, were brought up to town in the Pilot sloop which attended the 'Atlas', and interred here on the 30th of the same month. The public and private virtues of this excellent young man, were singularly eminent in his public capacity; he accomplished by a system of conciliation what could never be effected by Military coercion; he civilixed a savage race of the mountaineers, who for ages had existed in a state of barbarism, and eluded every exertion that had been practised against them to suppress their depradations, and reduce them to obedience; to his wise and beneficent conduct, the East India Company were indebted for the subjecting to their Government, the numerous inhabitants of that wild and extensive country, the Jungleterry. In his private station, by the amiableness of his deportment, the gentleness of his manners, and the goodness and generosity of his heart, he was universally admired, beloved and respected by all who had the happiness of knowing him. (The principal Natives who had been subject to his control solicited permission to give some public testimony of the sense they entertained of the beneficence which he had invariably shewn towards them, by erecting also a Monument to his Memory, which was accordingly done, and the expences of it were defrayed by voluntary subscription on their oarts.) |
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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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