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| Date transcribed | 2009-08-22 | | Transcribed by | Peter Bailey | | Comment | MIs taken from "Bengal Obituary" Dedicated by Holmes & Co., Calcutta, 1851 |
| | Surname | Cheese | | | Forename(s) | Michael | | | Year of Death | 1816 | | | Inscription | Sacred to the memory of the late Michael Cheese, Esquire, Surgeon on the Honorable Company's Bengal Establishment and Garrison Surgeon of Fort William; Dedicated by public contribution, in token of the high and well-merited esteem of this community for the enlarged and practical philanthropy of that gentleman's character. Perhaps never had the remains of a Christian in India been followed to their tomb with more heartfelt and expressed regfret than was manifested by the numerous assemblage of all classes of the society of this place, who attended his funeral on the 15th January 1816. He had exercised his professional talent with an ability which did honour to him as a practitioner of medicine, and with a munificence worthy of the religion he professed. If a change of air or expensive nutriments were desirable, but could not be afforded from the resources of a patient, Mr. Cheese supplied the means, and when all human endeavours proved unavailing, His purse was ever open to clothe and support the destitute mourners; That he was ever a welcome guest alike to the children and to the heads of the family. |
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