Last Name:
Hamilton
First Name:
John Russell
Grave Plot No.:
217
Spatial:
Titles:
Esq.
Date of birth:
1814
year of death:
1848
date of death:
08.11.1848
Ethnicity / Origin:
Scottish
Age at death:
34 yrs
Gender:
Male
Relationships:
Husband of Eliza Bruce of Ballygunge in 1845 (See FIBIS database http://tinyurl.com/qc5jzqk and the British India Office Ecclesiastical Returns).
A George Hamilton is listed as the executor of his will (See India Office Wills and Probate records)
Full Epitaph:
"Sacred to the memory of John Hamilton, Esquire, of the firm of Messieurs Mackenzie Lyall and Co.
Born at Glasgow on the 15th Sept. 1814
Died at Calcutta on the 7th Novr. 1848 aged 34 years"
Occupation:
Employee of the auctioneers Mackenzie, Lyall and Co.
Place of birth / origin:
Glasgow
Place of death:
Calcutta
Tomb architecture:
Chest tomb [?]
Detailed information:
Mackenzie Lyall and Co. were leading Calcutta auctioneers. In Recollections of Calcutta for over Half a Century, by Montague Massey, they are listed as the sole opium merchants for the East India Company and it seems that their premises were first inside the Fort William, in the original site for the Fort William College and later they were shifted to Dalhousie Square where the present Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank stands. For descriptions of the Mackenzie Lyall buildings, see Montague Massey's Recollections of Calcutta for over Half a Century (1918) http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12617/12617-h/12617-h.htm.
Buried by:
W.H. Meiklejohn, Off.Snr.Minister, St.Andrew's Church
Photo name/s:
Photo 2 close up:
This record has been created by::
Souvik Mukherjee
