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England / Re: Captain John Mills ( Black Hole of Calcutta)
« on: Tuesday 16 August 11 09:43 BST (UK) »
I have just read the following useful book by Brijen K Gupta "Sirajuddaullah and the East India Company 1756-1757". In which Captain John Mill's diary is quoted extensively. Captain John Mills, although recorded in the press as being the one of the survivors of the Black Hole of Calcutta, was in fact released the day before the incident. However, of those actually incarcerated was a Mr Mills - no initial given. One of my uncles photographed the memorial to John Mills Esq at the old St Pancras graveyard some 40 years ago. At the time part of the memorial had broken away and what was left read as follows "also the aforesaid JOHN MILLS Esq who departed this life 20th July 1811 Aged 90 years he was the last survivor of the few persons who came out of the Black Hole of Calcutta in Bengal in the year 1756" This would then make his date of birth 1721 rather than 1727