Edward Cornwallis Wilmot
1826–1826 (age 0)
Biography
Edward Cornwallis Wilmot was born in 1826 and lived during the height of the British Raj in India. He was born into a period when British colonial rule was firmly established in Calcutta, and the city had become a major center of commerce, administration, and culture for the British Empire in Asia.
Edward Cornwallis Wilmot's life and burial at South Park Street Cemetery connect him to the generations of British expatriates who shaped colonial India. His name reflects the prominence of military and administrative figures in the colonial hierarchy of the period.