Henry Piddington
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Henry Piddington was an English sea captain who sailed in East India and China and later settled in Bengal where he worked as a curator of a geological museum and worked on scientific problems, and is
A portrait sketch by Colesworthey Grant published in 1839 in the India Review
A storm card to guide sailors
Title page of the "Horn Book" (1848 edition) which included a translucent "storm card" in a sleeve within the book
Sacred Heart French Cemetery
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Sacred Heart French Cemetery is a Roman Catholic cemetery located at Laldighi in Chandannagar, West Bengal, which is associated with the Sacred Heart Church.
Henry Piddington
…1880) and Edmund (1832-1869) worked in the court at Calcutta while an older son was born in 1820 but died young in 1830. Piddington is buried in the Sacred Heart French Cemetery at Chandannagar. Piddington has been mentioned by Amitav Ghosh in his novel The Hungry Tide. Although a work of fiction Ghosh vividly describes the…
Sacred Heart French Cemetery