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South Park Street Cemetery, Calcutta - Part 1 [Holmes and Co]
Description | Transcribed from Bengal Obituary. A compilation of tablets and monumental Inscriptions from various parts of Bengal and Agra Presidencies. By Holmes and Co., printed by W Thacker and Co 1851. | Date transcribed | 2009-08-22 | Transcribed by | Peter Bailey | Comment | South Park Street Burial Ground begins on page 106 of the book and ends on page 176 - listing all inscriptions found in that cemetery as at 1851.
Records transcribed to date are from the establishment up to 1799 inclusive. |
| Surname | Crisp | | First Name(s) | Burriah | | Year | 1811 | | Inscription | Sacred to the Memory of Burriah Crisp, Esquire, a Senior Merchant in the service of the East India Company; and first member of the Board of Revenue: who departed this life on the 26th day of April 1811, aged 47 years. He arrived in this country when a child, and was therefore deprived of the advantages of an education in Europe, but by the tender care of an excellent mother (whose remains are interred near this spot) and by the powers of his own mind, he attained the highest offices under the Government; which he filled with zeal, ability and honor; whilst his private life was eminently distinguished by benevolence, piety and every social virtue. |
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Transcribed from Holmes and Co - Bengal Obituary, and photographs of headstones at South Park Street Cemetery, Calcutta.
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