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Go to record South Park Street Cemetery, Calcutta South Park Street Cemetery, Calcutta
 South Park Street Cemetery, Calcutta - Part 2

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Date transcribed2010-08-01
Transcribed byPeter Bailey
CommentRecords 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  Lumsdaine    
Forename(s)  William    
Rank or Title  Captain    
Year of Death  1830    
Inscription  Sacred to the Memory of Captain William Lumsdaine, Deputy Commissary General of the Army, who died on the 6th January 1830, aged 38 years. Distinguished in public life by talent, honor and industry; beloved and esteemed in private society for his mild virtues and peculiarly amiable general character. This stone is inscribed as a last sad tribute to the remains of one who in life possessed with the highest claims to the public admiration, the warm private friendship of numerous individuals, amongst whom were ranked some of the first characters in India, and carried with him to the tomb the sincere regret of all who knew him.    
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MIs in this Cemetery erected up to 1851
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