His name was on the original monument removed in 1819 to make room for the New Custom House. The monument listed names followed by:
"Who, with sundrey other inhabitants, Military and Militia, to the number of 123 persons, were by the tyrannic violence of Suraj-ud-Dowlah, Suba of Bengal. Suffocated in the Black Hole prison of Fort William, on the night of the 20th day of June 1756, and promiscuously thrown the succeeding morning into the Ditch of the ravelin of this place. This Monument is erected by their surviving fellow-sufferer, J. Z. Holwell. This horid act of violence was as amply as deservedly revenged on Suraj-ud-Dowla, by his Majesty's arms, under the condut of Vice Admiral Watson and Colonel Clive, Anno 1757.
"Who, with sundrey other inhabitants, Military and Militia, to the number of 123 persons, were by the tyrannic violence of Suraj-ud-Dowlah, Suba of Bengal. Suffocated in the Black Hole prison of Fort William, on the night of the 20th day of June 1756, and promiscuously thrown the succeeding morning into the Ditch of the ravelin of this place. This Monument is erected by their surviving fellow-sufferer, J. Z. Holwell. This horid act of violence was as amply as deservedly revenged on Suraj-ud-Dowla, by his Majesty's arms, under the condut of Vice Admiral Watson and Colonel Clive, Anno 1757.
His name was on the original monument removed in 1819 to make room for the New Custom House. The monument listed names followed by:
"Who, with sundrey other inhabitants, Military and Militia, to the number of 123 persons, were by the tyrannic violence of Suraj-ud-Dowlah, Suba of Bengal. Suffocated in the Black Hole prison of Fort William, on the night of the 20th day of June 1756, and promiscuously thrown the succeeding morning into the Ditch of the ravelin of this place. This Monument is erected by their surviving fellow-sufferer, J. Z. Holwell. This horid act of violence was as amply as deservedly revenged on Suraj-ud-Dowla, by his Majesty's arms, under the condut of Vice Admiral Watson and Colonel Clive, Anno 1757.
"Who, with sundrey other inhabitants, Military and Militia, to the number of 123 persons, were by the tyrannic violence of Suraj-ud-Dowlah, Suba of Bengal. Suffocated in the Black Hole prison of Fort William, on the night of the 20th day of June 1756, and promiscuously thrown the succeeding morning into the Ditch of the ravelin of this place. This Monument is erected by their surviving fellow-sufferer, J. Z. Holwell. This horid act of violence was as amply as deservedly revenged on Suraj-ud-Dowla, by his Majesty's arms, under the condut of Vice Admiral Watson and Colonel Clive, Anno 1757.
Gravesite Details
Ref: The Bengal Obituary: Or, a Record to Perpetuate the Memory of Departed Worth - 1851
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