DEATHS.
In June 1857, Lieutenant Oetavius Green, 36th Regiment Bengal Native Infantry, and second in command of the 9th Oude Irregular Force. He is supposed, from the best information that can be obtained, to have been shot by the men of his own re- giment when the mutiny took place at Seetapore.
On the 30th September, at Lucknow, of a gun-shot wound received on the 29th., after four mouths' volunteer service during the revolt and siege, Fitzherbert Deere Lucas, Esq., second surviving son of the Right Hon. Edward Lucas, of Castle Shane.
On the 30th October, at Lucknow, from severe wounds received at the relief of that city under General Havelock, Ferdinand William L'Estrange, Captain in H.M.'s 5th Fusiliers, who commanded the small detachment of that regiment which effected the brilliant relief of Arrab, son of Torriano Francis L'Estrange, Esq., of Lynn, county Westmeath; in his 31st year.
On the 18th November, at Lucknow, Sir Mountstuart Goodziche Jackson, Bart., of the Bengal Civil Service, son of the late Sir Keith Alexander Jackson, Bart. He was most cruelly murdered at the instigation of the Moulvie of Fyzahad, on the day the Commander-in-chief, Sir Colin Campbell, entered the city, after being basely be- trayed by the Rajah Louee Singh, of Mitawlee, who had protected hint and his sister, with six other persons, at the Hight from Seetapore ; in his 22d year.
On the 8th January, killed, in battery, at the Alumbagh, Lacknow, while ob- serving the effect of his own fire on the enemy, Dundee William Gordon, Lieutenant Ben Artillery, fifth son of the late Adam Gordon, Esq., of Blackheath Park; in his 5th year.
On the 20th, at Calcutta, in the Bishop's Palace, Hannah Ellerton, widow of the late John Ellerton, Esq., of Maldah, at the advanced age of eighty-six, (of which seventy-nine had been passed in India,) respected by all who knew her, and beloved by the orphan girls of the European soldier, to whose welfare she had devoted her- self for more than fifty years.
On the 19th February, in Warwick Street, Pimlico, Colonel George Forbes Thompson, late Royal Engineers ; in his 68th year.
On the 23d, at Clifton, Vice-Admiral the Hon. George A. Crofton.
On the 24th, at the Charterhouse, Mr. George Aked, formerly of Brigg, Lincoln- shire ; in his 93d year.
On the 25th, suddenly, Anne, third daughter of Sir Robert Williams, and sister of Sir Richard Williams Bulkeley, of Barn Hill, Anglesey.
On the 26th, in Spring Gardens, Thomas Tooke, Esq., F.H.B. • in his 84th year. On the 27th, at Soutbwold, accidentally drowned by the upsetting of a life-boat, John Henry, only son of John Thomas Ord, Esq., of Fornham House, Bury St- Edmunds ; in his 17th year.
On the 27th, at Southwold, by the upsetting of the life-boat, George ParkTn, only surviving son of Captain F. W. Ellis, B.N., of Hill House, Southwold ; in his 18th year.
On the 27th, at Mears Ashby Hall, Northamptonshire, the Bev. William Stock- dale, forty-four yetu's Vicar of Mears Ashby ; in his 91st year.
On the 28th, at Bath, the Dowager Lady Kinnaird ; in her 71st year. On the 28th, at Argyle Place, Sir Robert Campbell, Hart. ; in his OM year. On the 1st March, at Uxbridge, Charlotte, widow of the late William Heron, Esq.. of that place ; in her 90th year.
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