**John Graham was first buried at St. Peter-Le-Poer Cemetery. The Union of Benefices Act of 1860 allowed for 23 Churches and Cemeteries to be demolished and the human remains were to be bought to one Cemetery "City of London Cemetery and Crematorium. Each Cemetery has only one marker. His is St. Peter-le Poer.***
"John Graham went to India in 1759 on the Calcutta. He worked for the East India Company. John married Mary Shewin [Shewen] on August 8, 1762. He was Secretary to the Council. Resident at Midnapore, 1765. Superintendent of the Khalsa, August, 1773. Chief at Patna, January, 1772. President of the Board of Customs, 1773. Concerned in the trial of Nuncomar for conpiracy. John was a close associate of Warren Hastings.
"John's elder half brother George initially went to Jamaica where he worked as a planter. After this, in 1770, he also went to India (helped by his uncle Sir William Mayne) and joined his younger half brothers John and Thomas. They all appear to have made lots of money.
"From the 'Book of the Graemes and Grahams' by Louisa Grace Graeme:
"John Graham, first of Yatton, born 1741, a Member of the Supreme Council of Bengal, who went to India and was elected to that important post while quite a young man. He married Mary , daughter of William Shewen of Thistleboon, near Swansea, by his wife a daughter of Ph. Williams of Duffryn; suffering from the Indian climate John Graham returned from India, and died at the early age of thirty-five in sight of Majorca on a voyage from Marseilles to Lisbon for the benefit of his health. His body was conveyed to London and buried in St Peter le Poer in 1775; his wife died in 1798 at sixty-one; they had four sons and two daughters; the elder, Mary Helen, was educated by her relations, Lord and Lady Newhaven; she grew into a very beautiful woman, her portrait painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds is at Cossington.
"Miss Graham had the honour to be chosen as the governess to the Princess Charlotte of Wales, [grand-]daughter of King George III (and heir to the Crown of Great Britain and Ireland), during which appointment she married Sir H. W. Dashwood of Kirklington, Baronet and MP for Woodstock; Lady Dashwood died in 1796, leaving issue who hold that baronetcy. The only information I have obtained of her sister is the following notice of her marriage in the Scots Magazine: 1794, Nov. 16th, at St Margaret's Church, Westminster, William March, Esq, of Knightsbridge, to Miss Graham of Epsom, daughter of the late John Graham, Esq, member of the Council of Bengal, and niece to George Graham, Esq, of Kinross, MP."[
"John Graham went to India in 1759 on the Calcutta. He worked for the East India Company. John married Mary Shewin [Shewen] on August 8, 1762. He was Secretary to the Council. Resident at Midnapore, 1765. Superintendent of the Khalsa, August, 1773. Chief at Patna, January, 1772. President of the Board of Customs, 1773. Concerned in the trial of Nuncomar for conpiracy. John was a close associate of Warren Hastings.
"John's elder half brother George initially went to Jamaica where he worked as a planter. After this, in 1770, he also went to India (helped by his uncle Sir William Mayne) and joined his younger half brothers John and Thomas. They all appear to have made lots of money.
"From the 'Book of the Graemes and Grahams' by Louisa Grace Graeme:
"John Graham, first of Yatton, born 1741, a Member of the Supreme Council of Bengal, who went to India and was elected to that important post while quite a young man. He married Mary , daughter of William Shewen of Thistleboon, near Swansea, by his wife a daughter of Ph. Williams of Duffryn; suffering from the Indian climate John Graham returned from India, and died at the early age of thirty-five in sight of Majorca on a voyage from Marseilles to Lisbon for the benefit of his health. His body was conveyed to London and buried in St Peter le Poer in 1775; his wife died in 1798 at sixty-one; they had four sons and two daughters; the elder, Mary Helen, was educated by her relations, Lord and Lady Newhaven; she grew into a very beautiful woman, her portrait painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds is at Cossington.
"Miss Graham had the honour to be chosen as the governess to the Princess Charlotte of Wales, [grand-]daughter of King George III (and heir to the Crown of Great Britain and Ireland), during which appointment she married Sir H. W. Dashwood of Kirklington, Baronet and MP for Woodstock; Lady Dashwood died in 1796, leaving issue who hold that baronetcy. The only information I have obtained of her sister is the following notice of her marriage in the Scots Magazine: 1794, Nov. 16th, at St Margaret's Church, Westminster, William March, Esq, of Knightsbridge, to Miss Graham of Epsom, daughter of the late John Graham, Esq, member of the Council of Bengal, and niece to George Graham, Esq, of Kinross, MP."[
**John Graham was first buried at St. Peter-Le-Poer Cemetery. The Union of Benefices Act of 1860 allowed for 23 Churches and Cemeteries to be demolished and the human remains were to be bought to one Cemetery "City of London Cemetery and Crematorium. Each Cemetery has only one marker. His is St. Peter-le Poer.***
"John Graham went to India in 1759 on the Calcutta. He worked for the East India Company. John married Mary Shewin [Shewen] on August 8, 1762. He was Secretary to the Council. Resident at Midnapore, 1765. Superintendent of the Khalsa, August, 1773. Chief at Patna, January, 1772. President of the Board of Customs, 1773. Concerned in the trial of Nuncomar for conpiracy. John was a close associate of Warren Hastings.
"John's elder half brother George initially went to Jamaica where he worked as a planter. After this, in 1770, he also went to India (helped by his uncle Sir William Mayne) and joined his younger half brothers John and Thomas. They all appear to have made lots of money.
"From the 'Book of the Graemes and Grahams' by Louisa Grace Graeme:
"John Graham, first of Yatton, born 1741, a Member of the Supreme Council of Bengal, who went to India and was elected to that important post while quite a young man. He married Mary , daughter of William Shewen of Thistleboon, near Swansea, by his wife a daughter of Ph. Williams of Duffryn; suffering from the Indian climate John Graham returned from India, and died at the early age of thirty-five in sight of Majorca on a voyage from Marseilles to Lisbon for the benefit of his health. His body was conveyed to London and buried in St Peter le Poer in 1775; his wife died in 1798 at sixty-one; they had four sons and two daughters; the elder, Mary Helen, was educated by her relations, Lord and Lady Newhaven; she grew into a very beautiful woman, her portrait painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds is at Cossington.
"Miss Graham had the honour to be chosen as the governess to the Princess Charlotte of Wales, [grand-]daughter of King George III (and heir to the Crown of Great Britain and Ireland), during which appointment she married Sir H. W. Dashwood of Kirklington, Baronet and MP for Woodstock; Lady Dashwood died in 1796, leaving issue who hold that baronetcy. The only information I have obtained of her sister is the following notice of her marriage in the Scots Magazine: 1794, Nov. 16th, at St Margaret's Church, Westminster, William March, Esq, of Knightsbridge, to Miss Graham of Epsom, daughter of the late John Graham, Esq, member of the Council of Bengal, and niece to George Graham, Esq, of Kinross, MP."[
"John Graham went to India in 1759 on the Calcutta. He worked for the East India Company. John married Mary Shewin [Shewen] on August 8, 1762. He was Secretary to the Council. Resident at Midnapore, 1765. Superintendent of the Khalsa, August, 1773. Chief at Patna, January, 1772. President of the Board of Customs, 1773. Concerned in the trial of Nuncomar for conpiracy. John was a close associate of Warren Hastings.
"John's elder half brother George initially went to Jamaica where he worked as a planter. After this, in 1770, he also went to India (helped by his uncle Sir William Mayne) and joined his younger half brothers John and Thomas. They all appear to have made lots of money.
"From the 'Book of the Graemes and Grahams' by Louisa Grace Graeme:
"John Graham, first of Yatton, born 1741, a Member of the Supreme Council of Bengal, who went to India and was elected to that important post while quite a young man. He married Mary , daughter of William Shewen of Thistleboon, near Swansea, by his wife a daughter of Ph. Williams of Duffryn; suffering from the Indian climate John Graham returned from India, and died at the early age of thirty-five in sight of Majorca on a voyage from Marseilles to Lisbon for the benefit of his health. His body was conveyed to London and buried in St Peter le Poer in 1775; his wife died in 1798 at sixty-one; they had four sons and two daughters; the elder, Mary Helen, was educated by her relations, Lord and Lady Newhaven; she grew into a very beautiful woman, her portrait painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds is at Cossington.
"Miss Graham had the honour to be chosen as the governess to the Princess Charlotte of Wales, [grand-]daughter of King George III (and heir to the Crown of Great Britain and Ireland), during which appointment she married Sir H. W. Dashwood of Kirklington, Baronet and MP for Woodstock; Lady Dashwood died in 1796, leaving issue who hold that baronetcy. The only information I have obtained of her sister is the following notice of her marriage in the Scots Magazine: 1794, Nov. 16th, at St Margaret's Church, Westminster, William March, Esq, of Knightsbridge, to Miss Graham of Epsom, daughter of the late John Graham, Esq, member of the Council of Bengal, and niece to George Graham, Esq, of Kinross, MP."[
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Re-interred: John Graham was first buried at St. Peter-le Poer and with Union of Benefices Act of 1860 relocated at City of London Cemetery and Crematorium
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