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 Death Announcements 1845-1854
| Transcribed by | Steve van Dulken |
| | Surname | Elliot | | | First names | Henry Miers | | | Rank / occupation | Foreign Secretary |  | Unit | Government of India | | | Death date | 20 Dec 1853 | | | Place of death | Cape of Good Hope  | | | Source | Gentleman's Magazine | | | Date | Apr 1854 | | | Page number | 424 | | | Detail | At Simon's Town, Cape of Good Hope, aged 45, Sir Henry Miers Elliot, K.C.B. Foreign Secretary to the Government of India. He was the third son of the late John Elliot, esq. of Pimlico-Lodge, Colonel-Commandant of the Westminster Volunteers, by Miss Lettsom, younger daughter of John Coakley Lettsom, M.D. He was appointed a writer on the Bengal establishment in 1826, was sometime Assistant to the Collector and Magistrate of the South division of Moradabad, and, after other promotions, was latterly Secretary to the Governor-General in Council in the Foreign Department. He received the order of the Bath in 1849 for his services during the conduct of the Sikh war. Sir Henry Elliot was the author of A Supplement to the Glossary of India, published at Agra, 1845, 8vo. and of a Bibliographical Index to the Historians of Muhammedan India, Calcutta, 1849, 8vo. He married a daughter of William Cowell, esq. of the Bengal civil service, formerly Judge at Bareilly. |
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