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 Death Announcements 1731-1831

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Transcribed bySteve van Dulken

Surname  Chambers    
First names  Robert    
Rank/ occupation  Chief Justice    
Unit  Supreme Court of Judicature at Bengal    
Death date  1803    
Source  Gentleman's Magazine    
Date  Jun 1803    
Page number  592    
Detail  Sir Robert Chambers, knt. was several years Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Judicature in Bengal; and a man of too exalted merit to be passed with a slight or careless notice. He was born in 1737, at Newcastle on Tyne, the eldest son of Mr. Robert Chambers, a respectable attorney of that town... [his younger brother William Chambers was in India, he married Miss Wilton before leaving for the East Indies in April 1774, she died in 1782, his eldest son died in the loss of the Grosvenor in 1782, beame Chief Justice in 1791, returned to England in 1799, left a widow, pages 592-594].    
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