Tomb inscription · 1869
Montague Dundas Cockburn
- Date
- 28 September 1869
- Place
- Kotagiri
- Plot
- Serial 2309
- Inscription
- Montague Dundas Cockburn, late of the Madras Civil Service, aged 81 years.
- Notes
- He married Catherine Jane Lascelles at Bangalore, January 4th, 1827, who died August 30th, 1879, in her eightieth year. His father was, in 1779, Sheriff of the county of Midlothian and afterwards a Baron of Exchequer. See 'Memorials of My Time' by Henry Thomas Cockburn, Scotch Judge (Dn. B), brother of M. D. Cockburn. At Cuddalore, Catherine, wife of Montague Dundas Cockburn, Esq., C.S., died on March 1, 1826 (see No. 1230). She had a son born at Cuddalore on January 21, 1816 (Asiatic Journal, August 1816). A son of hers, aged 4 years, died at Cuddalore on April 1, 1817 (Asiatic Journal, December 1817). Jane, wife of Mr. Cockburn, died at Calcutta, 12th January 1824, aged 27 years and two months. (S. Park Street.)