Mary Douglas

1773 - 1841  (68 years)

• Name	Mary Douglas
  Birth	1773
  Gender	Female
  Death	1841
  Person ID	I7528	First tree
  Last Modified	2 Jun 2014

  
  

  Father	Sir William (4th Bt of Kelhead) Douglas,   b. Abt 1730   d. 16 May 1783 (Age 53 years)
  Mother	Grace (of Lockerbie) Johnston,   b. Abt 1746   d. 25 Mar 1826, Glen Stuart, Scotland (Age 80 years)
  Marriage	21 May 1772	Midlothian, Scotland
  Family ID	F15423	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Maj Gen Sir Thomas Sydney Beckwith,   b. 1772   d. 15 Jan 1831, Mahableshwar, India (Age 59 years)
  Marriage	1817
  Children	1. Thomas Sydney Beckwith   d. 21 Mar 1828, Gibraltar
  Family ID	F70363	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	2 Jun 2014

  
  

• Notes

  About sixty yards to the west of the Christ church in Mahabaleshwar is the Beckwith monument 4558 feet above sea level and reached by a bad stony path. It is a plain obelisk about thirty feet high and was erected from public subscription at a cost of Rs 3000. Sir Sidney Beckwith died here in 1831 while commander-in-chief. The subscribers put up an inscription and Lady Beckwith sent out another on a marble tablet. The influence of weather on marble rendered the second inscription almost illegible as early as 1843; the first inscription remains comparitively uninjured though the writing is much obliterated and blackened and can only be read with the greatest difficulty. For several years the monument has been regarded as sacred by the poorer classes, who resort to it for the purpose of obtaining answers to prayers. The first inscription on the west face runs : "Sacred to the Memory of Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas Sidney Beckwith, K.C.B., Governor and Commander-in-chief of Bombay, and Colonel of His Majesty's Rifle Brigade; who, after along course of distinguished service, expired at his Residence on these Hills, on the 15th day of January 1831, aged 60 years. Erected by a small circle of his friends in testimony of their admiration for his noble character and to perpetuate the memory of so good and amiable a man." The other inscription on the east face runs : "This Tablet is placed by Mary, Lady Beckwith, daughter of the late Sir William Douglas, of Kilhead, Bart as a memorial of the most devoted affection for her lamented husband, by whose sudden death she has been deprived of a most attached partner and friend and guide, in whom was combined every amiable quality by which the Christian character is adorned, and the intercourse of domestic life is endeared-a loss which can only be alleviated by the hope that looks beyond the grave. The sympathizing friends who erected this monument have kindly permitted a sorrowing widow to add her heartfelt tribute to their."