05/07/2014
Kolkata City Tour - Park Street Cemetery: The Park Street Cemetery was one of the earliest non-church cemeteries in the world, and probably the largest Christian cemetery outside Europe and America in the 19th century. It is now a heritage site, protected by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI). The cemetery was opened to relieve the pressure on the old burial ground in the heart of the city. The road leading to the cemetery came to be known as the Burying Ground Road but was subsequently renamed Park Street after the park around Vansittart's garden house. By the year 1785 the burial ground had been extended on the northern side of Park Street and by 1840 a vast new cemetery was opened to the east of the Lower Circular Road. The Europeans started to disuse it in the year 1790. It has been confirmed by a marble plaque at the gate which reads "South Park Street, Opened: 1767, Closed: 1790". The Notable Tombs here are:
• Rose Aylmer (died 1800)
• Elizabeth Barwell (died 1779)
• George Bogle (1746–1781), diplomat
• Lieutenant-General Sir John Clavering (c.1722-1777), army officer
• Augustus Cleveland (d. 1784), colonial administrator
• Henry Louis Vivian Derozio (1809–1831), teacher and poet
• Sir Elijah Impey (1732-1809), judge
• Sir William Jones (1746–1794), Indologist, founder of the Asiatic Society
• Colonel Robert Kyd (1746–1793), botanist
• Lieut. Col. Colin Mackenzie (1754–1821), Surveyor General of India
• Sir John Hadley D'Oyly, 6th Baronet (1754–1818), politician
• Major-General Charles Stuart (1758–1828), army officer and Indophile popularly known as "Hindoo Stuart"
