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Name: POSTLETHWAITE, Miles
Birth Date: 19 May 1857 Gosforth, Cumberland
Death Date: 14 Nov 1899 Mombasa, smallpox, buried at Mbaraki
First Date: 1899
Last Date: 1899
Profession: MP on round the world tour
Area: Mombasa
Married: In Ulverston 1871 Margaret Gaskell b. 1850 Kirkby Ireleth, Lancs., d. 1886 Ulverston
Book Reference: North, Barnes
General Information:
North - British MP on world tour; dep. Zanzibar for Mombasa 6/10/1899; died at 'The Royal Hotel' Mombasa 14/11/1899
Mombasa Mbaraki cemetery Miles Postlethwaite, 19 May 1857-14 Nove 1899, died at Royal Hotel, Mombasa, smallpox. Inscription: in loving memory of / Miles Postlethwaite J.P. / the Hollows - Whitehaven / Cumberland / born 19th May 1857 / died 14th November 1899 / in Mombasa from smallpox / contracted on the way hither / whilst returning / from a tour round the world / father in thy gracious keeping / leave me now thy servant sleeping
Mombasa Mbaraki cemetery Miles Postlethwaite, 19 May 1857-14 Nove 1899, died at Royal Hotel, Mombasa, smallpox. Inscription: in loving memory of / Miles Postlethwaite J.P. / the Hollows - Whitehaven / Cumberland / born 19th May 1857 / died 14th November 1899 / in Mombasa from smallpox / contracted on the way hither / whilst returning / from a tour round the world / father in thy gracious keeping / leave me now thy servant sleeping