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Death Announcements 1731-1831
Date transcribed | 2000-00-00 | Transcribed by | Steve van Dulken |
| Surname | Unwin | | First names | George | | Rank/ occupation | Purser | | Unit | East India service | | Death date | 8 Apr 1820 | | Place of death | Kennington | | Source | Gentleman's Magazine | | Date | Apr 1820 | | Page number | 380 | | Detail | At Kennington, aged 73, Mr. George Unwin, formerly a Purser in the Navy and East India service. Among the pursuits of this Gentleman is to be recorded his persevering and successful exertions in reviving, in the year 1790, the trade to China in British tin, thereby giving a new impulse to an almost stagnant trade, and the means of employment to hundreds of poor starving miners. |
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