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 Death Announcements 1845-1854

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Surname  Lethbridge    
First names  John Arscott    
Rank / occupation  Midshipman    
View all other items of "Unit" with value "HEICS Bombay Castle" in "Death Announcements 1845-1854" Unit  HEICS Bombay Castle    
Death date  16 July 1854    
Place of death  Greenwich    
Source  Gentleman's Magazine    
Date  Sept 1854    
Page number  310    
Detail  [At Greenwich, aged 68, Secretary of the Royal Hospital, Greenwich. Born Okehampton, Devon, 28 Feb. 1787, educated at Christ's Hospital. In Dec. 1802 entered EICS Bombay Castle as a midshipman, and while in that ship was engaged with a French squadron under Linois in the China seas. Upon his return to England was recommended to Commodore Sir Home Popham by his MP, and joined the Royal Navy, in the Diadem, under Popham's command, and soon became his secretary. Appointed Secretary to the Hospital in 1823, retired in 1853]    
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