Tomb inscription · 1866
Caroline Elizabeth, Caroline Ethel and Charles Havelock
- Date
- 6 May 1866
- Place
- Stephens
- Plot
- Serial 2284
- Inscription
- In loving memory of Caroline Elizabeth Havelock, the wife of Lieut.-Colonel William Havelock, K.H., late H.M.'s 14th Light Dragoons, a resident at Ootacamund for the last 15 years of her life. She was a faithful worshipper in this church, an excellent wife, a good, kind and judicious mother. Highly respected by all who knew her, she ended a blameless life on the 6th May 1866, in her 62nd year. A tribute of their love and esteem, this tablet is placed here by her sons, Colonel Acton Chaplin Havelock and Sir Arthur Elibank Havelock, G.C.M.G., G.C.I.E. Also in memory of Caroline Ethel and Charles Havelock, children of the above, who entered into their rest and are also interred at Ootacamund.
- Notes
- Colonel William Havelock, the elder brother of Sir Henry Havelock, was wounded at the battle of Waterloo, where he acted as Aide-de-Camp to Baron Alten, and fell at the head of his regiment, the 14th Light Dragoons, in their desperate but successful charge on the Sikh Army at Ramnuggur, November 22nd, 1848. His wife was the daughter of Acton Chaplin. Their eldest son, William Henry, was in the Bombay Civil Service and died November 1st, 1876. The second, Colonel Acton Chaplin Havelock, married the second daughter of General Sir Anthony Stransham, G.C.B. Sir Arthur Elibank Havelock, the third son, was Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the West African Settlements 1881-84, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Trinidad 1884-85, Governor of Natal 1885-89, Governor of Ceylon 1890-95, and Governor of Madras 1895-1900. He was Governor of Tasmania from 1901-1904. He died 25th June 1908.