Hyderabad Residency Cemetery - Inscriptions:

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INSCRIPTIONS and NOTES

Note: Madras Almanac 1818 gives 14 Aug. 1817 as date of death.

Grant married Miss Mary Stoddard, Dec. 12th 1812.  On 24th July 1813 at the Residency, the lady of Ensign Chas. St. John Grant, attached to the Escort was in consequence of a fall prematurely delivered of a daughter, who died shortly after her birth.

Note: Sir Henry Russell, second baronet (1783-1852), was Resident at Hyderabad in 1808 and again from April 1811 to December 1820. He married firstly Jane Amelia, daughter of J. H. Casamajor, Member of Council at Fort St. George, who died at Madras, December, 29th 1808; and secondly on November 13th 1816, Marie Clotilde, daughter of Benolt Mottet de la Fontaine, who survived him until 1872.  Their eldest son Henry (b. 1819), died at Cairo in 1847. The second son and third baronet, Charles (1826-1883) was a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Grenadier Guards and one of the first recipients of the Victoria Cross for Gallantry in the Crimea.

Note:  William Rumbold, of the Company's service, who was buried at Fulham on September 15th 1728, became the father of two sons, Henry and William. Henry was Secretary to the Council at Fort William and died at Bengal, September 1st 1743.  He married Sarah Basnet at Fort St. George, August 17th 1731. William rose to be second at Tellicherry and died in 1745. Of his three sons, William, the eldest, entered the Company's military service and died at Fort St. David on August 1st 1757, in his twenty-eighth year. :  and the second, Henry, died at sea at an early age. A letter from Lt. Wm. Rumbold dated Camp near Madura 22 May 1757, describing the state of affairs at Madura, "The follg. have died on the Coast:  Lieutenants William Rumbold and John Keith and Cadet Daniel Anthony Montach"  Pigot's despatch to Directors Nov. 15 1757.

Thomas Rumbold, the youngest (1736-1791) is erroneously said to have begun life as a boots at Arthur's fashionable gaming house in St. James' or as a tide-waiter at the London Docks.  In 1752 he entered the Company's service as a Writer, but before long, exchanged the civil for the military profession, as Clive had done.  After serving under Lawrence in the operations round Trichinopoly in 1754, he accompanied Clive to Bengal in 1756, and for his gallantry at the siege of Calcutta received a captain's commission.  He was Clive's Aide-de-Camp at the battle of Plassey and was severely wounded.  Permission was given to him to revert to the civil service, and in December 1760, he was third at Chittagong.  Subsequently he became Chief at Patna and from 1766 to 1769 was a Member of Council at Fort William.  He had now made his fortune and returned to England.  On November 26th 1770, he took his seat in the House of Commons as member for New Shoreham.  Seven years later he was appointed to succeed Lord Pigot as Governor of Fort St. George where he landed on February 8th 1778.  In the following October, Pondicherry capitulated to Sir Hector Munro, and Rumbold was created a baronet on March 23rd 1779.  On April 6th 1780, he resigned his governorship and sailed for England.  On his arrival, he was held responsible for Hyder's invasion of the Carnatic and dismissed the service of the Company by the directors.  The parliamentary enquiry which ensued proved abortive; and Rumbold continued to sit in the House and play the part of a nabob until his death on November 11th 1791.  He was twice married, but left his estates to his children by his second wife, who was a daughter of Edmund Law, Bishop of Carlisle.  His eldest son by his first wife, William Richard (1760-1786), was Aide-de-Camp to Sir Hector Munro at the siege of Pondicherry and carried home the despatches and the colours of the fortress for presentation to the King.  The second baronet, Sir George Berriman Rumbold (1764-1807), was so named after his mother, Frances Berriman, who had married Thomas Rumbold at Madras on June 22nd 1756.  She died at Calcutta in childbirth, August 22nd 1764, aged 26.  Her parents James Berriman and Frances Aspinwall were married at Fort St. George, October 9th 1736.  G. B. Rumbold was born at Fort William on August 17th 1764, and while Minister Resident at Hamburg in 1804, was seized by Order of the French Government and conveyed as a prisoner to the Temple in Paris.  He died at Memel in 1807.  Two of his sons joined the banking house of Palmer & Co., and are buried at Hyderabad;  George the second, who is here commemorated, and William, the eldest, who succeeded his father in the baronetcy and died in 1833.

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