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| | Surname | Dowdeswell | | | First names | George | | | Rank / occupation | Secretary |  | Unit | Government of India | | | Death date | 6 Feb 1852 | | | Place of death | Worcestershire  | | | Source | Gentleman's Magazine | | | Date | Apr 1852 | | | Page number | 413 | | | Detail | At Down House, Redmarley, Worcestershire, aged 86, George Dowdeswell, esq. formerly Secretary to the Government of India. Mr Dowdeswell was the third and youngest son of George Dowdeswell, M.D. of the city of Gloucester, by Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Buckle, esq. of Chaceley, co. Worc. His father, who died at Bristol Hot Wells in 1776, was the only brother of the Right Hon. William Dowdeswell, of Pull Court, co. Worc. M.P. for Worcestershire, Chancellor of the Exchequer in the Rockingham administration of 1765, and father of the late John edward Dowdeswell, esq. of whom a memoir was given in our Magazine for December last. Mr George Dowdeswell was for many years in India; and, after filling various offices of trust, he rose to the station of Secretary to the Government. He subsequently became a member of the Supreme Council, of which he was eventually the senior member, and in that capacity he for some months administered the Government as Deputy Governor of Fort William, and Vice-President in Council, during the temporary absence of the Marquess Hastings. Mr Dowdeswell married Miss Mary Rose Anne Egerton, and had issue two sons, George-Francis and William-Tombelle. |
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