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 Death Announcements 1845-1854
| Transcribed by | Steve van Dulken |
| | Surname | Laing | | | First names | James | | | Rank / occupation | Postmaster |  | Unit | Kandy | | | Death date | 9 Sept 1846 | | | Place of death | Ceylon  | | | Source | Gentleman's Magazine | | | Date | Mar 1847 | | | Page number | 334 | | | Detail | At Kandy, James Laing, esq. the postmaster of that town. He was a native of Edinburgh, and was the youngest son of Mr William Laing, formerly bookseller in that city. (See Gent. Mag. for Sept. 1832.) He was originally intended for the Church, but his inclinations having led him to pursue his father's business, he and his partner, in 1831, became successors to the well-known firm of Manners and Miller. The state of his health at length induced him to relinquish business, and after spending a winter in Malta, on finding a further change necessary, he proceeded to Ceylon in 1842. After a residence of three years at Colombo, where he conducted the ""Ceylon Herald,"" and commenced a new monthly paper, as the ""Overland Mail,"" he finally settled in Kandy (in the neighbourhood of which he had acquired a coffee plantation), and was appointed in January 1846 Deputy Postmaster General of the Central Province and Distributor of Stamps, but was there suddenly cut off by cholera in the prime of life, while his friends were anticipating for him the prospect of a much more lengthened and honourable career. |
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