Joseph Simpson

Biography

Joseph Simpson was born in 1760 and lived to the age of sixty-four, passing away in 1824. He was buried in South Park Street Cemetery, Calcutta, where he rests among the many individuals who shaped the city's early colonial history.

Simpson's long life spanned a formative period in British India's development. His burial in this historic cemetery reflects his place within the established community of Calcutta during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.