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Go to record South Park Street Cemetery, Calcutta South Park Street Cemetery, Calcutta
 South Park Street Cemetery, Calcutta - Part 1

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Date transcribed2009-08-22
Transcribed byPeter Bailey
CommentRecords transcribed to date are from the establishment up to 1799 inclusive.

Surname  Wheler    
First Name(s)  Edward    
Year  1784    
Inscription  Near this place, sleep in joyful hope of a resurrection, the remains of Edward Wheler, Esq., third son of Sir William Wheler, Bart. Of leamington Hastings, in the county of Warwick, and of Dame Penelope, his wife; daughter of Sir Stephen Glyn, Bart. Of Bicester in Oxfordshire, and of Dame Sophia, his wif; Daughter of Sir Edward Evelyn of Long Ditton in Surry, Bart. He married first Harriet Chichely Plowden, descended from the Plowdens of Plowden in Shropshire; by whom he had no issue. Second, Charlotte, daughter of George Durnford, Esq. of Winchester, by whom he had two daughters: Charlotte and Penelope, and left them both infants. Those who had the happiness of his friendship, saw human nature in its most aimiable form; for he was a kind and tender husband, a fond and careful father, the warm patron of those he protected and the friend of all mankind. In his political character, which will be best learned from the pages of history; he was an upright, just and honest man; and as his disinterested conduct gained the esteem of all ranks of men; so in their memory he is honored, beloved, lamented. In September his health began to decline and after a few weeks' illness, he died on the 10th of October, in the year of our Lord 1784, aged fifty-one.    
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MIs in this Cemetery erected up to 1851
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