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| Date transcribed | 2000-00-00 | | Transcribed by | Steve van Dulken |
| | Surname | Sclater | | | First names | Gilbert | | | Rank/ occupation | Shipowner | | | Unit | EI trade | | | Death date | 30 Sep 1793 | | | Source | Gentleman's Magazine | | | Date | Nov 1793 | | | Page number | 1054 | | | Detail | Of a mortification in his bladder, Gilbert Sclater, esq. a considerable owner of E. India shipping, and one of the directors of the London Assurance-office. Mr. S. was son of an E. India captain, and was himself a ship's husband by which he acquired a large fortune, which he applied to botanical purposes having two persons collecting for him in the East Indies at the expense of £500 a year, and having made an elegant arrangement of his garden, and contrived a water-mill, which pipes to distribute the water to the several beds. He married Miss Jackson, by whom he has left several children, the youngest just born. Mr. S. was so corpulent through excessive eating that he kept a regular weekly fast without reducing his corpulency. The third daughter died the 22nd inst. Having been long subject to violent attacks of the stone and a lethargichabit, he died of an obstruction in his kidneys, which brought on a diarhoea. After lying in state two days, at his house in Knots-green, Low Layton, his remains were interred at Hendon, on Nov. 7. |
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