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 South Park Street Cemetery, Calcutta - Part 3
| Date transcribed | 2012-08-01 | | Transcribed by | Peter Bailey |
| | Surname | Ker | | | Forename(s) | Robert | | | Year of Death | 1819 | | | Inscription | Erected in Memory of Robert Ker, one of the Civil Servants of the East India Company on the Bengal Establishment, who died on the 3d Dec. 1819, aged 45 years. During a service of 22 years Mr. Ker passed through various situations of trust and difficulty, in all evincing an admirable strictness of principle, soundness of judgment and force of character. Able, laborious and independent, anxious only for the public interests; expecting reputation and favor solely through the discharge of public duty gaining both unsolicited. In 1814 Mr. Ker was selected to fill a seat in the Supreme Native Court at this Presidency; the unanimous choice of his fellows directed the choice. His excellent administration honored it. In 1818 unhappy disturbances agitating Cuttack, Mr. Ker was called to the Civil administration of the province, in which while yet a youth, he had by a just and wise government eminently raised the British name and powerfully attached the affections of a newly conquered people, for the public good, readily sacrificing his personal comforts. He freely exposed himself, labouring under disease, in an unhealthy climate, and fell victim to public duty, having, to the province committed to his charge, restored peace, security and order. The virtues of Mr. Ker in private life were not less distinguished than his merits as a public man, and bore the same stamp of unaffected truth and unpretending sincerity. Kind, generous, humane and warm-hearted. Never was one more dearly loved; Never more deeply lamented. |
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