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 Death Announcements 1845-1854
| Transcribed by | Steve van Dulken |
| | Surname | Dyce Sombre | | | First names | David Ochterlony | | | Rank / occupation | Esq. | | | Death date | 1 July 1851 | | | Place of death | London  | | | Source | Gentleman's Magazine | | | Date | Aug 1851 | | | Page number | 201 | | | Detail | [Pages 201-202. ""At his apartments in Davies Street, David Ochterlony Dyce Sombre, esq. Though few names have acquired a greater degree of scandalous notoriety than this person, there was little remarkable about him beyond his pedigree and his wealth. His paternal grandfather was a Scotsman, a native of the town of Aberdeen, and his grandfather on the mother's side an Alsatian Frenchman, a native of the city of Strasburgh. Both paternal and maternal grandmothers were Indian Mahomedan concubines of their respective lords. The history of the maternal grandfather alone is remarkable. He was a French adventurer named Gaultier Reignard, originally a private in the company of Switzers in the British service at Calcutta, (from which he deserted to the Nabob of Oude,) who for his sullen look went with his countrymen under the name of Sombre, or ""the gloomy"". The natives, who could not make the two consonants at the end of the French word to coalesce, dropped the b, and adding a vowel, the name became Somru, which our English orthography writes Sumroo. Such is the origin of the patronymic of the Sumroos, to which was prefixed the surname of the Caledonian forefather, Dyce. Reignard engaged in the service of Meer Cassim, Nabob of Bengal, when he was engaged in hostilities with the English. In revenge for the capture of one of his fortresses, the Nabob resolved on the massacre of his English prisoners, and accordingly put, it is supposed, about 200 to death. ""He found" |
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