[The attack on the fort of Birwa was carried out by the column under Brigadier Barker during the pacification of Oudh. Birwa is in Hardoi.]
(Reference : Gazetteer.)
OLD PROTESTANT CEMETERY, NEAR AMINABAD.
942.—1807—COLLINS, J., Colonel. Inscription:- In memory of Colonel John Collins, Resident at the Court of Lucknow, 1806-07, died 18th June 1807.
[N.B.-All the succeeding tombs, save this, have lost their inscriptions, which are reproduced from Führer's List.]
John Collins (?-1907) joined the E.I. C.'s Bengal infantry in 1770, and became Major in 1794. He was Resident at the Court of Daulat Rao Sindhia from 1795-1803. He possessed great influence over him: but failed to dissuade him from fighting the British Government. When Sindhia was secretly mediating as the result of the Treaty of Bassein he succeeded in obtaining the truth, and it was largely as a result of his discoveries that war was declared. In 1799 he went on a mission to Jaipur and there Wazir Ali, the murderer of Dir. Cherry (vide no. 594,) surrendered to him. He was subsequently Resident at Lucknow. He is described as “cold, imperious and over-bearing," and was nicknamed “King Collins."]
(References: Buckland; Wellesley's Despatches; Thorn; Danis.)
943—1827—RICKETTS, F. F. Inscription:--Frederick Fitzgerald, son of Mordaunt and Charlotte Ricketts, born 10th October 1827, died 8th March 1828.
I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me. (B. O.)
[Son of the Mordaunt Ricketts, Resident at Lucknow, whose marriage was celebrated by Bishop Heber in 1824. M. Ricketts was son of G. Poyntz Ricketts, B.C.S., born in 1786, and joined the service in 1802. He was at Lucknow in 1822-9 and retired in 1830. His son, Mordaunt, was killed in the Mutiny at Shahjahanpur, cf. no. 410.]
(References : Prinsep C. L.; W. P.; Heber.)
944.—1828—WYLDE, C. V., Lieutenant. Inscription:- Sacred to the memory of Charles Vincent Wylde, Lieutenant and Adjutant, 14th Regiment Bengal Native Infantry, born 14th February 1758, died 19th October 1828. This tomb was erected by the officers of his regiment to commemorate their esteem for him whilst alive, and their regret at his early death. (B. O.)
[Son of the Revd S.T. Wylce, born in 1799 at Burrington, Somerset.]
(Reference : C. P.)
945.—1831—PATTON, S., Mrs. Inscription:-Sacred to the memory of Mrs. Sophia Patton, who departed this life on the 3rd of November 1831, deeply regretted. (B. O.)
[J B. Hearsey writing from before Bhurtpore in 1825 to his brother-in-law, Salmon, at Lucknow, sends a message to Mrs. Patton that her husband was well. This is possibly that lady, and if so, her husband must have been in the army.]
(Reference : Pearse.)
946.—1835—MOORE, S, Mrs. Inscription:--Sacred to the memory of Sarah, the beloved wife of Lieutenant-Colonel George Moore, 59th Regiment, Native Infantry, who departed this life the 23rd December 1835, aged 31 years.
[Sarah Cattell, second wife of Col. G. Moore, afterwards Brigadier-General in command of the Rajputana Field Force (1789-1848). She had four sons and a daughter. The family is descended from Lord Chancellor Moore.)
(Reference: Burke L. G.)
947.—1837—MONTEITH, L. F., Mrs. Inscription:--Sacred to the memory of Lucinda Florence, the lady of Lieutenant-Colonel Monteith, 35th Regiment, who died at Lucknow on the 2nd of September 1837.
