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South Park Street Cemetery, Calcutta - Part 2 [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 | 2010-08-01 | 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 1800 onwards. These are not in date sequence and so this Part 2 is the first part of subsequent records. Further records will be transcribed and included in Part 3, etc. until all are completed up to 1851. |
| Surname | Mouat | | Forename(s) | Sir James | | Rank or Title | Colonel | | Regiment | Engineers | | Year of Death | 1829 | | Inscription | To the Memory of Colonel Sir James Mouat, Bart, Bengal Engineers, who departed this life at sea on Board the H.C. Ship ""Prince Regent."" the 9th May 1829, aged about 63 years. Sir James Mouat served as a soldier in India 46 years, acted as Aid-de-Camp to Sir Robert Abercromby, in 1794, at the battle of Rohillas, and in 1804 was elected Professor of Hindostanee in the College of Fort William. His merits were repeatedly noted in the orders of Government, but his elegant manners, brilliant talents, classic taste, literary accomplishments, amiable disposition, and native goodness of heart, could alone be justly estimated by his friends. This tablet has been placed as a tribute of regard, esteem and affection, to a lamented parent, by Dr. Mouat, M.D. Surgeon H.M. 13th Dragoons. |
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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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