Lower Circular Road Cemetery
Known as General Episcopal Cemetery , the Lower Circular Road Cemetery is located on the crossing of Mother Teresa Sarani and Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Road (former Lower Circular Road). It was established on 1840 and is still functional. It contains approximately 12,000 graves including many former British East India Company employees. There are two Second World War Commonwealth war graves, of an officer of the British Indian Army and a purser of the British Overseas Airways Corporation. Entrance to the burial ground Notable graves Herbert Alick Stark (1938) - Author and educationist William Hay Macnaghten (1841) - First Baronet and a British civil servant in India, who played a major part in the First Anglo-Afghan War. David Drummond (1843) - was then appointed as an assistant in the proprietary school of Messer’s Wallace and Measures. A few years after he became sole proprietor the Dhurmotolla Academy under him speedily attained the highest position amongst the educationa