Tomb inscription · 1857
Brackley Kennett
- Date
- 12 October 1857
- Place
- Coonoor
- Plot
- Serial 2310
- Inscription
- General Brackley Kennett, Colonel of the 22nd Regiment B.N.I., born at Dorchester, Oxon, 31st July 1770, died at Coonoor by the hand of an assassin at the age of 87.
- Notes
- Of the Bombay Army. Evidently a connexion of Brackley Kennett, Lord Mayor of London, circa 1779. He was killed at the Lodge (now Sir Robert Stanes') by a band of Mahomedans who asked him money. He lived for a week and was able to identify them all. As they came in one by one he said, 'I fought them.' The Madras Almanac of 1858 gives 9th October 1857 as the date of his death.