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 South Park Street Cemetery, Calcutta - Part 3
| Date transcribed | 2012-08-01 | | Transcribed by | Peter Bailey |
| | Surname | Law | | | Forename(s) | George Ewan | | | Year of Death | 1820 | | | Inscription | Buried here are the remains of George Ewan Law, Esq. Late Principal Assistant in the Secret and Politcal department of the Government at Calcutta, &c. He was the third son of Ewan Law, Esquire, of Horsted Place in the County of Sussex, formerly for many years chief of the Provincial Council at Patna. He was educated at Westminster School, and he married Charlotte, eldest daughter of Commodore John Hayes, Master Attendant of the Port of Calcutta, by whom he left two sons and a daughter. He was born on the 28th of October 1796, and died the 6th of November 1820, aged 24 years. No common sorrow lingers on his early grave; tears from the deepest sources of affection honor the memory of one who possessed an extraordinary share of human excellence; of strong and pure attachments, of noble and generous spirit of mild and modest manners; with a clear and powerful understanding; with an elegant and richly informed mind, firm in principle, zealous in action, he was marked from early youth as one that should reflect honour upon his family and his country. It pleased God to shorten his earthly pilgrimmage yet so long was he spared as to have fulfilled the duties of each domestic obligation, and to be distinguished as an able servant of the public interests with that grateful sense of the mercies of Christianity which characterized his course through life. He resigned himself in death humbly and readily to the will of the Almighty. This tablet is placed by his unhappy widow a Monument of his virtues and of the unbounded affection and respect. |
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