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| Date transcribed | 2000-00-00 | | Transcribed by | Steve van Dulken |
| | Surname | Thorp | | | First names | Samuel | | | Rank/ occupation | Writer | | | Unit | EIC | | | Death date | 15 Jul 1791 | | | Place of death | Madras  | | | Source | Gentleman's Magazine | | | Date | Dec 1791 | | | Page number | 1158 | | | Detail | At Madras, aged 18, Mr Samuel Thorp, son of Mr T. of Aldgate. This young gentleman went out a writer in the East India Company�s service last spring. He was a youth of the most promising hope, in whom gentleness of manners and fortitude of mind were happily united. He had been only a few weeks in Madras, but in that time has much engaged the regard of Sir Charles Oakley, the governor, who thus expressed himself in a letter to a friend: �I should have been exceedingly happy to have manifested my attention to your recommendation of Mr Thorp, had it pleased providence to spare his life, but I am sorry to inform you that this young gentleman died last night after a short but severe illness much regretted by every one who knew him. I had him many times at my house, and was much pleased with his disposition and manners, which seemed to be most amiable�. He had heated himself by dancing, drank freely of lemonade, and afterwards slept in his palanquin, which brought on a flux that proved fatal on the fifth day. |
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