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 Death Announcements 1845-1854
| Transcribed by | Steve van Dulken |
| | Surname | Phillips | | | First names | Thomas | | | Rank / occupation | Member of the Medical Board |  | Unit | Calcutta | | | Death date | 13 June 1851 | | | Place of death | London  | | | Source | Gentleman's Magazine | | | Date | Dec 1851 | | | Page number | 655 | | | Detail | [Pages 655-656. At his residence, 5 Brunswick Square. Born in London 6 July 1760, son of Thomas Phillips, esq. of the Excise department of revenue. Relatives in Llandegley, Radnor. Apprenticed to a surgeon at Hay, Breconshire. Entered the naval service in 1780 as surgeon's mate. Entered the EIC in 1782, and went to Calcutta with the artillery. ""In 1796 he was Inspector of Hospitals in Botany Bay, from whence he went to China, Penang, Madras, and Calcutta. Returning home on leave in a Danish vessel in 1798, he was captured in the channel by a French privateer, and brought to Bordeaux, where, after examination, he was liberated; officers removing on account of their health, and passengers, not being then considered prisoners of war."" Married in 1800 Miss Althea Edwards, dau. of the Rector of Cusop near Hay. Returned to Calcutta in 1802 and became Superintending Surgeon. Was elected a member of the Calcutta Medical Board. Returned to England in 1817. Very charitable. ""One person he took with him to India in the year 1802, and set him up in business, who after being there some years, finding his health declining, was about to return to England, and having saved some money, Mr Phillips added to it the like sum, saying that it was to enable him to live in England as an East Indian ought to do."" Buried in the catacombs of St Pancras church, near his wife, who had died 13 Sept 1841. Left much money to education, especially a college at Lampeter, Wales] |
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