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 Death Announcements 1845-1854
| Transcribed by | Steve van Dulken |
| | Surname | Russell | | | First names | Lechmere Coore Graves | | | Rank / occupation | Major General |  | Unit | Bombay Army | | | Death date | 28 Apr 1851 | | | Place of death | Shropshire  | | | Source | Gentleman's Magazine | | | Date | Sept 1851 | | | Page number | 321 | | | Detail | At Ashford Hall, Shropshire, in his 65th year, Major-General Lechmere Coore Graves Russell, C.B. General Russell was born on Christmas Day in the year 1786, and was the eldest son of James Russell, esq. (a younger son of James Russell, esq. Judge of the King's Bench in America, and descended from a family resident for some generations at Charlestown in that country,) by Mary, second daughter of Richard Lechmere, esq. nephew to Nicholas Lord Lechmere of Evesham. He entered the service of the East India Company as a cadet of the Bombay establishment in 1802, became Colonel of Artillery 1833, and a Major-General 1841. He succeeded his father in his estates in 1832. He married, June 14, 1814, Harriet-Elizabeth, daughter of Ollyett Woodhouse , esq. of North Repps, Norfolk, Advocate-General of Bombay; and had issue three sons and five daughters. Edward-Lechmere, his eldest son, is Lieutenant in the 12th Bombay Native Infantry; and Frederick-Thomas-Lechmere, the second brother, was Lieutenant in the 2d Madras Cavalry, from which he retired in 1846. |
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