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| Date transcribed | 2000-00-00 | | Transcribed by | Steve van Dulken |
| | Surname | Kerr | | | First names | Andrew | | | Rank/ occupation | Captain | | | Unit | Country service | | | Death date | 1801 | | | Place of death | Cuddalore  | | | Source | Gentleman's Magazine | | | Date | Jan 1801 | | | Page number | 88 | | | Detail | Lately, in New town, Cuddalore, in the East Indies, aged 76, Capt. Andrew Kerr, formerly of the country service, but better known by the name of the Old Commodore. He was born in Fort St. David about 1724, which place he left in 1735, and went to England. He was a sensible old man, of plain and blunt manners, strongly characteristic of his profession. In his will he directed his body to be interred in a particular spot in his garden, without ceremony or service. His coffin had lain many years in his godowd, and was occasionally made use of as a liquor-chest, or a receptacle for horse-grain. |
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