Peter Watson

1770–1823 (age 53)

Biography

Peter Watson was born in 1770 and lived to the age of fifty-three, dying in 1823. He was buried in South Park Street Cemetery, Calcutta, a burial ground that served the colonial community throughout the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

Watson's long life encompassed more than five decades of colonial India's history. His interment in South Park Street Cemetery reflects his established place within Calcutta's community during a transformative period in the subcontinent's history.

Also buried at South Park Street Cemetery

William Jackson
1801–1825 (age 24)
South Park Street Cemetery
Susana Weldon
1776–1804 (age 28)
South Park Street Cemetery
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Margaret Kinsey
1792–1813 (age 21)
South Park Street Cemetery
Capt Charles Eggleston
d. 1809
South Park Street Cemetery
Thomas Hollingdery
1776–1803 (age 27)
South Park Street Cemetery
Henry Wilkins Hicks
1812–1812 (age 0)
South Park Street Cemetery
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