Tomb inscription · 1831
Hildebrand Gordon Oakes
- Date
- 30 October 1831
- Place
- Stephens
- Plot
- Serial 2261
- Inscription
- Hildebrand Gordon Oakes, Esq., of the Bombay Civil Service, son of the late Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Oakes, Bart., aged 34 years.
- Notes
- His widow married in 1843 Lieutenant-Colonel J. R. Morse, of the 1st Bombay European Regiment. He was the nephew of Lieutenant-General Sir Hildebrand Oakes, G.C.B., Chief Civil Commissioner and Commander-in-Chief at Malta, who was created a baronet on November 2nd, 1813. Sir Henry Oakes, the second baronet, was also a Lieutenant-General in the army. No less than four Oakes were in the Madras Civil Service: Thomas (1770-1806), Thomas Alexander (1802-1840), Henry Robert (1804-1820) and Charles Edward (1822-1837).