Tomb inscription · 1848
T. M. Frere
- Date
- 28 May 1848
- Place
- Kotagiri
- Plot
- Serial 2308
- Inscription
- T. M. F. 1848.
- Notes
- Heroine of the haunted house at Kotagiri. The house called Corseley is Mrs. Griffiths'. Hatley Frere, C.S. (1811-68), nephew of the Right Hon. John Hookham Frere (1769-1846), married, September 22nd, 1840, Theodora Amelia Mary, daughter of Bishop Spencer of Madras. Hatley Frere died Nov 3, 1868. George John Trevor Spencer was born Dec. 11, 1799; Bishop of Madras 1838 to 1849; died July 16, 1866 in his 67th year; married May 27, 1823 Harriet Theodora, third daughter of Sir Benjamin Hobhouse, Bart., of Westbury Cottage, Gloucestershire. He had issue: (1) Wm. Cavendish born 19th January 1829, B.C.S. (2) Rev. Almeric John Churchill born 23 January 1834, died in Calcutta January 23, 1860. (3) Theodora Amelia Maria married September 1840, Hatley Frere, M.C.S. (4) Susan Ann Sophia Churchill married 1846, Robt. Kerr Hamilton, Chaplain at Madras. (Madras Diocesan Record, May 1906, p. 251 note by C. S. Spencer C.S. his kinsman.)