Memorial dedicated to Lieutenant Colonel Charles Burton Burr, who died in 1821. He played a significant role in the defeat of the Peshwa Army during the Battle of Kirkee on 5 November 1817, during the Third Anglo-Maratha War (1817-1819). The barefoot soldier on the right is wearing the uniform of the 1st Battalion, 7th Regiment of the Bombay Native Infantry, which Charles Burton Burr commanded.
Memorial dedicated to Daniel Seton, Lieutenant-Governor of Surat Castle, who died on 17th April 1803. In 1612, the East India Company (EIC) had set up their first factory at Surat, which was the seat of the Company’s trade. However, Surat declined in importance when the EIC took possession of Mumbai and made it their focus of commerce and governance.
Memorial dedicated to Major General John Bellasis, who was the commander of the East India Company army at Mumbai and died on 11th February 1808, aged 64 years. The memorial is also dedicated to his wife, Anne Martha, who died in Mumbai on 14 May 1797. The couple got married at St. Thomas Church on 3rd June 1776. Bellasis Road in Mumbai is named after John Bellasis, who constructed it in 1793 as a famine relief effort.
Memorial dedicated to Henry Robertson Bowers, Lieutenant of the Royal Indian Marine, who lost his life on the ill-fated British Antarctic Expedition of 1910–1913, led by Captain Robert Falcon Scott (1868-1912). The team intended to be the first to reach the geographic South Pole but was beaten to the race by Roald Amundsen's polar party. Bowers, Scott, and other members of the party ran out of food and perished on the return journey sometime around 27 March 1912.
Born in Scotland, Jonathan Duncan came to India at the age of 16. He began his career in India in 1772, and in 1784, he was one of the charter members of the Asiatic Society founded in Calcutta by William Jones. In 1791, he started the Sanskrit College in Benaras to promote the study of Hindu laws and philosophy. His lifelong interest in cultivating Brahminical knowledge is reflected at his memorial, which has a dhoti-clad bare-chested Brahmin scholar.
Dated from around 850 CE, a Saxon-era brooch was discovered in 1867 during excavations at St. Georges Street, Canterbury. Cast in bronze with complex decorations, the design was replicated for a stone cross erected at Canterbury Cathedral. Similar replicas, mounted on fragments of stone from Canterbury Cathedral, are placed in Anglican Cathedrals worldwide. The cross sent to the Diocese of Bombay is embedded in the west wall of St. Thomas Cathedral (at the bottom, between the two plaques as seen in the above figure).
St. Thomas Church has many memorials dedicated to officers who served in the East India Company. This memorial, erected in 1777, is dedicated to John Watson, Commander-in-Chief of the naval force employed in the 'Reduction of Salsette.' He was mortally wounded during the Siege of Tanna (Thane) on 21st December 1774 and died six days later at Thane.
Famously known as the "Bullion King of Mumbai," Premchand Roychand was a benefactor to St. Thomas Cathedral. His generous contributions helped complete renovations, which lasted from 1862-1867 and resulted in an enlarged apse, chancel, and organ chamber (seen here). It cost Rs 1,63,000, which was partly raised by public donations, and the rest was funded by the government.
Memorial dedicated to the commander, officer, and sailors of the East India Company's steam frigate Cleopatra that sank in a hurricane off the Malabar coast on 15th April 1847. Constructed at Northfleet, the ship arrived at Mumbai on 19th April 1840 and operated as a transport and mail steamer between Mumbai to Karachi, Aden, and Suez. The memorial was erected by officers and seamen of the Indian Navy.