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Go to record South Park Street Cemetery, Calcutta South Park Street Cemetery, Calcutta
 South Park Street Cemetery, Calcutta - Part 3

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Date transcribed2012-08-01
Transcribed byPeter Bailey

Surname  Blacker    
Forename(s)  Valentine    
Rank or Title  Lieut.-Col.    
Regiment  Madras Cavalry    
Year of Death  1826    
Inscription  Beneath are deposited the remains of Lieut.-Colonel Valentine Blacker, Companion of the Bath; of the Light Cavalry on the establishment of Fort St. George. During Ten years, Quarter Master General of the Madras Army, and subsequently Surveyor General of India. Obt. iv February MDCCCXXVI. Aet. xl. Lieutenant-Colonel Blacker was, an officer distinguished alike for professional ability, for public zeal, for private worth, and for manliness of character. In testimony thereof his friends and comrades have caused this Monument to be erected to his memory.    
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MIs in this Cemetery erected up to 1851
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