Dictionary of Indian Biography/Blosset, Sir Robert Henry

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BLOSSET, SIR ROBERT HENRY (1776–1823)

Son of the Rev. Dr. Henry Peckwell, an eminent preacher: he took his mother's name of Blosset: educated at Oxford: was Recorder of Cambridge: was appointed Chief Justice of Bengal in 1821: died Feb. 1, 1823. There are a monument and hatchment to his memory at St. John's Church, Calcutta.