col Robert Kellys
In our arni city there is a tomb for a colonel Robert Kellys in main area the inscription goes like
the colonel mounted here on 1790
(215 years ago Now 2006)
The ground reserved for the tomb was very large as big as nearly 4 to 5 football grounds.
In the internet I saw very few details about col.Robert Kellys that he was assigned to take a military survey in madras presidency
I saw an article about colonel in THE HINDU
When the postman knocked...
READER CHUBBY Raj's letter on Kelly's (Miscellany, July 28) has Randor Guy shedding light on the name. It's named after Kelly's Gardens on Purasawalkam High Road, near the Abhirami Complex, according to Randor Guy, a property that took the name of Captain Robert Kelly, after it had been granted to him by the East India Company in the late 18th Century. Tracing Kelly's career, I found that Ensign Robert Kelly arrived in Madras in 1760 and by 1778 was a Major whom the Council was prepared to listen to. When he proposed a military survey of South India, the Council thought the cost would be too much and passed the buck on to London. But it made him Geographer of the Company on the Coast the following year and gave him a well-staffed department. That London did grant him permission appears likely, for it was during a survey in the Arni area that Kelly, a Colonel by then, died in September 1790.
My references, however, do not speak of a Kelly's Gardens or a garden house of that name, but, given Kelly's standing with the Council, a land grant was quite likely and an area named after him is also more possible than one after an employee of Best's in a much later area by which time the city had named most of its roads and areas. What would seem more certain is that, as Randor Guy says, the area was named after a John Company sahib rather than being an English variation of `Killiyur', as some hold. Of Killiyur, there appears to exist no records.
And it wasn't Shell, I later recalled; it was Stanvac (Standard Vacuum, later ESSO) with which Frederic Fales Richardson was associated and which so many readers recalled in word and letter.
Full story
http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/mp/2003/08/18/stories/2003081800140300.htm
the colonel mounted here on 1790
(215 years ago Now 2006)
The ground reserved for the tomb was very large as big as nearly 4 to 5 football grounds.
In the internet I saw very few details about col.Robert Kellys that he was assigned to take a military survey in madras presidency
I saw an article about colonel in THE HINDU
When the postman knocked...
READER CHUBBY Raj's letter on Kelly's (Miscellany, July 28) has Randor Guy shedding light on the name. It's named after Kelly's Gardens on Purasawalkam High Road, near the Abhirami Complex, according to Randor Guy, a property that took the name of Captain Robert Kelly, after it had been granted to him by the East India Company in the late 18th Century. Tracing Kelly's career, I found that Ensign Robert Kelly arrived in Madras in 1760 and by 1778 was a Major whom the Council was prepared to listen to. When he proposed a military survey of South India, the Council thought the cost would be too much and passed the buck on to London. But it made him Geographer of the Company on the Coast the following year and gave him a well-staffed department. That London did grant him permission appears likely, for it was during a survey in the Arni area that Kelly, a Colonel by then, died in September 1790.
My references, however, do not speak of a Kelly's Gardens or a garden house of that name, but, given Kelly's standing with the Council, a land grant was quite likely and an area named after him is also more possible than one after an employee of Best's in a much later area by which time the city had named most of its roads and areas. What would seem more certain is that, as Randor Guy says, the area was named after a John Company sahib rather than being an English variation of `Killiyur', as some hold. Of Killiyur, there appears to exist no records.
And it wasn't Shell, I later recalled; it was Stanvac (Standard Vacuum, later ESSO) with which Frederic Fales Richardson was associated and which so many readers recalled in word and letter.
Full story
http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/mp/2003/08/18/stories/2003081800140300.htm
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