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| Date transcribed | 2000-00-00 | | Transcribed by | Steve van Dulken |
| | Surname | Burford | | | First names | John | | | Rank/ occupation | Clerk | | | Unit | Committee of EIC Directors for Buying | | | Death date | 7 May 1800 | | | Place of death | India House  | | | Source | Gentleman's Magazine | | | Date | May 1800 | | | Page number | 491 | | | Detail | Mr. John Burford, clerk to the Committee of East India Directors for Buying, threw himself out of a one-pair-of-stairs window, under the new portico of the India house, Leadenhall-street. His head was crushed to pieces, and he only survived a few minutes. The cause of this fatal accident can only be attributed to a sudden mental derangement, and as had regularly transacted his business in the office, though he had for some time appeared rather dejected. He had been only 2 minutes in the room, where there were other clerks, when he opened the window, and suddenly sprang out of it, in the sight of a number of people. On an inquisition before the coroner, it appearing that he had laboured under a great depression of mind and lowness of spirit for some time past, the jury brought in a verdict of lunacy. |
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