Captain William Warden
1779–1807 (age 28)
Biography
Captain William Warden was born in 1779 and died in 1807 at the age of twenty-eight. As a soldier in the service of the British East India Company, he played a role in the military affairs of colonial India. He was buried in South Park Street Cemetery, Calcutta, where military personnel and civilians alike found their final resting place.
Warden's military service reflected the martial dimension of colonial life in early nineteenth-century India. His burial in this historic cemetery honors his contribution to the military establishment during a pivotal period in British India's history.