South side of Park Street, to distinguish it from the one on the North side of that street. The street derived its name from the Park belonging to Sir Elijah Impey, the Chief Justice of his day, which it skirted. The cemetery was opened on the 25th day of August 1767, for the remains of a Mr. John Wood, a writer in the Custom House, but his tomb was subsequently levelled to make a cross-road. The oldest monument that bore an inscription is given in the Bengal Obituary as that of Mrs. Sarah (or Leah)

(By kind permission of Messrs. Thacker, Spink and Co., Calcutta.)

This cemetery

Pearson, who died on the 8th September 1768. is full of many interesting graves and it contains many obelisks and pyramids, which a deceased Baptist Missionary used to describe as "protests against the resurrection." There were many burials in this cemetery during the early years of the 19th Century. The figures for the twenty years which are given overleaf

are taken from Mr. W. H. Carey's Book, The good old days, etc. :—

From the above it will be seen that the three heaviest years were 1822 with 324 deaths, 1833 with 301 deaths, and 1825 with 294 deaths. The last was the year in which the Rev. John Lawson died, which was a notoriously bad year. There are seven tombs in this Cemetery to which attention may be drawn, viz.:—

1. That of Sir William Jones, the eminent Orientalist. It is one of the loftiest (if not the loftiest) in the whole Cemetery as the obelisk rises over 60 feet from the broad masonry pedestal on which it is built and about 75 feet from the ground. Sir William Jones died on the 27th April 1794, at the age of only 47 years. This was within six months of Dr. Carey's arrival in Calcutta. A sketch of it is given on the next page.

2. The next to be noticed is that of Major-General Charles Stuart, who died on the 31st March 1828, aged 70 years. He is generally known as "Hindu" Stuart, because it is traditionally stated he became a Hindu and had his residence in Wood Street, Calcutta, full of idols. It is also so stated that Government refused

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(By permission of Mr. E. W. Madge, from a negative by the late Mr. Alf. Palmer.)

to allow him to be cremated as a Hindu because of his position as a General Officer of the British Army, so gave him a burial in this Cemetery, but allowed his tomb to be constructed in the shape of a Hindu temple with emblems of idolatry all about its exterior. In itself it is a very curious-looking structure and because of this a sketch of it is given on the next page. But our interest in it lies more in the fact that he was one of the bitterest opponents of the missionaries in his day.

3. The third is that of the Rev. David Brown, who died on the 14th June 1812, aged 48 years. He was for years the constant friend of the Serampore missionaries. His grave is in the very forefront on the right hand side of the main walk of this Cemetery.

4. The fourth is that of the Rev. John Lawson, who was one of the Co-Pastors of the Church from 1816 to 1819, and the first Pastor of the Circular Road Church.

5. Then there is that of Mrs. Catherine Thomas, the widow of Dr. Carey's companion John Thomas. It is of the description known as an altar tomb and has withstood the climatic influences wonderfully well for over 105 years. It is now about to be repaired at the expense of the Baptist Missionary Society. The inscription on it runs as below:

To the memory of

Mrs. Catherine Thomas,

relict of the late Mr. John Thomas, who departed this life, 6th April 1803. aged 50 years.

This monument is erected by her

disconsolate daughter, Elizabeth Thomas.

This disconsolate daughter's familiar name was Betsy whom her mother described in a letter received by Mr. Thomas in June 1788, as "one of the finest girls in the world." She came out with her mother in 1793. She was born in 1787 so was about 16 years of age when her mother died. She went to England in

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(By permission of Mr. E. W. Madge from a negative by Mr. C. F. Hooper.)