The Story of Lall Bazar Baptist Chapel by E.S. Wenger describes Charles Chodron's grave as one of the one important graves in the Scots Cemetery:
That of Mr Charles Chodron, "the excellent" who did such good work as a vernacular preacher in the south villages though he originally came out only as a British seaman. He died on 22nd September 1832. The grave has recently been repaired at the expense of the Baptist Missionary Society.
(p.519)
The Missionary Gazetteer writes that 'Chodron and Gorachund, the native itinerants continue to labour as usual and nor are their endeavours without effect' raising speculations that Chodron might have been of Indian origin. Wenger also states that Chodron was baptised in India.
References:
Wenger, Edward Steane. The Story of the Lall Bazar Baptist Church, Calcutta: Being the History of Carey’s Church from ... Edinburgh Press, 1908. http://archive.org/details/storylallbazarb00wenggoog.
Williams, Charles. The Missionary Gazetteer: Comprising a Geographical and Statistical Account of the Various Stations of the Church, London, Moravian, Wesleyan, Baptist, and American, Missionary Societies Etc., with Their Progress in Evangelization and Civilization. F. Westley and A.H. Davis, 1828.
Souvik Mukherjee
