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	Black Hole of Calcutta: Encyclopedia topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The commander John Zephaniah Holwell (John Zephaniah Holwell: john zephaniah holwell (1711-1798) was a survivor of the fl hole of calcutta....
		Holwell (from whose narrative, published in the Annual Register (Annual Register: more facts about this subject) for 1758, this account is partly derived), remained alive, and they were either stupefied or raving.
		Holwell and three others were sent as prisoners to Murshidabad (Murshidabad: murshidabad is a town located in the northern part of present day state of west...
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		Holwell and three others were sent as prisoners to Murshidabad; the rest of the survivors obtained their liberty after the victory of a relief expedition under Robert Clive.
		Holwell wrote an account of the incident in which he claimed that of 146 prisoners, 123 suffocated when imprisoned in the tiny room.
		Holwell (from whose narrative, published in the Annual Register for 1758, this account is partly derived), remained alive, and they were either stupefied or raving.
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	The Andrews Pages : Gentleman's Magazine Library - Devon (3)
		He was cousin, by the mother's side, to the celebrated Addison, and to John Duke of Marlborough ; a native of St. Thomas's, adjoining to Exeter, born in 1685, and died by drowning (in a fit of melancholy) in the Thames, 1737.
		John Zephaniah Holwell wrote an account of the fall of Calcutta in 1756, and the confinement of 137 persons in the Black Hole there; was a native of Exeter, where he died in 1789.
		Sir Francis Buller, Bart., judge, and John Heath, judge, were also from the same neighbourhood; and it is worthy of remark that this last-mentioned and Sir Vicary Gibbs, who sat together in the Court of Common Pleas, were born in the same precinct-viz., the Close at Exeter.
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	A Moment In Time with Dan Roberts
		Content: Last time we noted that Holwell was the temporary commandant of the British garrison appointed after the governor fled downstream to a safe anchorage.
		Holwell described the night of June 20, 1756 as one of unspeakable horror.
		Holwell's account began to appear in letters written over the next year, and with each telling the sufferings became more acute and his own role more heroic.
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		John Zephaniah Holwell, who survived the incarceration and wrote many testimonials of his horrors in the Black Hole, is the sole eyewitness source on this mystifying episode.
		John Zephaniah Holwell was not an evil man; he lived in a world that placed a lot of importance on wealth and popularity.
		Holwell’s careful wording caused his readers to infer certain ideas and details based on their sentimental reactions.
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	Manas: History and Politics, Black hole of Calcutta
		This story was recounted by the survivor John Zephaniah Holwell, and soon became the basis for representing Indians as a base, cowardly, and despotic people.
		Innumerable journalistic and historical works recounted the story of the "Black Hole" of Calcutta, but Holwell's account was the sole contemporary narrative.
		John Zephaniah Holwell: A Genuine Narrative of the Deplorable Deaths of the English Gentlemen and others who were suffocated in the Black Hole: London, 1758.
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	Harrow, including Pinner : The growth of the hamlets \| British History Online
		John Hawtrey was assessed for 15 hearths (fn.
		51) The land was held by 8 landholders, of whom John Parson (108 selions and 7 a.), Henry Spilman (108 selions and 6 a.), the chantry (fn.
		80) Probably this was the 'house of her master, John Page, in Wembley', where in 1580 Elizabeth Edlin gave birth to an illegitimate baby; the child was murdered by Francis Shoesmith, brewer, of Wembley, and buried in Rogers Croft, one of John Page's fields.
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	The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, London 1674 to 1834
		John Miller, The prisoner came to ask me for a night's lodging, last Christmas-day at night; he is of my trade, a chimney-sweeper.
		John Hanford, the landlord of the inn, if he could give me cash for it, he having connections at Liverpool; he said, he would send it for acceptance at Liverpool, and then give me the cash; I concluded so to do.
		(M.) John Baptist Rosa was indicted, for that he, on the King's highway, on Elizabeth, wife of Joseph Francis, did make an assault, putting her in corporal fear and danger of her life, and violently taking from her person one silk handkerchief, value 3 s.
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	Black Hole of Calcutta — A Case in British India - The Education Forum
		According to the version of J. Holwell, 146 English prisoners were confined during the night in a small room, made popular by him as Black Hole, which was 18 feet long and 14 feet 10 inches wide.
		Even Holwell was claimed to have written a book (presently publicized at www.lostbooks.net/cgi-bin/lbn455/26413.html and the going rate is 200 pounds) in which he had given the names of all the 149 persons imprisoned on the night of June 20, 1756.
		Holwell that the British East India Company was claimed to have avenged the death of the victims of Black Hole.
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	Descendants of John Ferrior of Steynton
		This John Ferrior was probably the son of yet another John Ferrior of who was buried at Steynton in 1714.
		To son John Ferrior one shilling and after decease of my wife Margaret Ferrior the house in Short Row, Haverfordwest her paying the yearly rent of 13 shillings to the free school Haverfordwest.
		Fulke Greville, in the south-eastern part of the parish, was originally built by John Zephaniah Holwell, whose sufferings in the fl hole at Calcutta are well known: it is a spacious mansion.
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	Tuck's Calcutta : Holwell Monument, Calcutta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		John Zephaniah Holwell was the leader of the little band of Europeans left in peril after the sack of calcutta by the Nawab of Bengal in 1756.
		After a short resistance, Holwell and his gallant party were forced to surrender and were thrust, 146 of them in a guard-room, 18 by 15 feet ' the -Black Hole of Calcutta.';.
		Only 23 came out alive, including Holwell, who wrote an account of their awful sufferings.
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	A Compendium of Irish Biography: comprising sketches of distinguished Irishmen, eminent persons connected with Ireland ...
		John Hay, his brother, once a Lieutenant in the Irish brigade in France, was executed on Wexford bridge in 1798 for complicity in the Insurrection; whilst another brother, Philip, rose to be a Lieutenant-General in the British service, dying at Lambeth, 8th August 1856, aged 82.
		Hogan, John, sculptor, was born at Tallow, in the County of Waterford, in 1800.
		Hughes, John, Archbishop of New York, was born in the parish of Errigal Trough, County of Monaghan, in 1798.
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	Black Hole of Calcutta - TheBestLinks.com - British Empire, Bengal, India, June 20, ...
		The commander John Zephaniah Holwell wrote an account of the incident in which he claims of 146 prisoners, 123 suffocated.
		Holwell and three others were sent as prisoners to Murshidabad; the rest of the survivors obtained their liberty, and the corpses were thrown into a ditch.
		The Black Hole was later used as a warehouse, and an obelisk, 50 feet high, was erected in memory of the supposed victims.
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	John, "the Savage" - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about John, "the Savage" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		John, "the Savage" is not available in the Hutchinson encyclopedia.
		John, 1st Earl Russell of Kingston Russell Russell
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	Peoples Republic Of Cork Forums - View Single Post - The great PROC Friday internet Treasure Hunt thread.
		Anyway, that's the story told by one of the survivors, John Zephaniah Holwell, in A Genuine Narrative of the Deplorable Deaths of the English Gentlemen and others who were suffocated in the Black Hole.
		He showed Holwell to be an unreliable witness and claimed the entire incident--if it occurred at all--was exaggerated by Holwell in an attempt to pass himself off as a hero (successfully, I might add, for Holwell eventually rose to become Governor of Bengal).
		As also the Mythology and Cosmogony, Fasts and Festivals of the Gentoos, followers of the Shastah, and a Dissertation on the Metempsychosis, commonly, though erroneously, called the Pythagorean doctrine, in which Britons were exhorted not to apply their own standards to the Indians, and rather to let the Indians follow their own path.
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	Overthrow.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Despite his blindness, King John had insisted on being led into battle by twelve knights with their horses tied together so that he "might strike one clean blow." The Black Prince later adopted the motto of King John, "Ich dien" ("I serve"), shown inscribed on the bridle of King John’s horse.
		Holwell and three others were sent prisoners to Muxadavad; the rest of the survivors obtained their liberty, and the dead bodies were carelessly thrown into a ditch.
		His father was John Black, an Ulster wine merchant of Scots descent based in Bordeaux (presumably for obvious reasons), and his long-suffering mother, Margaret Black, was from Aberdeenshire (also a member of a wine-trading family).
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	zephaniah
		Zephaniah was the name of several people in the Bible Old Testament and Jewish Tanakh.
		The name means Jehovah has concealed, or Jehovah of darkness.
		Zephaniah's Oracles Against the Nations : A Synchronic and Diachronic Study...
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	HISTORICAL HORRORS PRESENTS
		The major account (indeed the only one written by a survivor) that told the miserable tale of the Black Hole came from an obscure Dublin born doctor.
		Born in 1711, Holwell grew up mainly in London where he learned something of the medical profession.
		Holwell certainly had his detractors - some who had survived their night in hell say it happened exactly as documented, others remained silent - publicly at least.
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	Hindu Nationalism : The First Phase - Page1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The story begins in 1767 when John Zephaniah Holwell's pioneering work was published under the lengthy title Interesting Historical Events, relating to the Provinces of Bengal and the Empire of Indostan....
		Holwell's contribution to the European view of India was twofold; he established the great antiquity of the Indian people and the need to apply standards other than European to the study of India and its culture.
		Holwell dismissed previous accounts of India as "defective, fallacious and unsatisfactory...
	www.hindubooks.org /HinduPhe/hindu_nationalism/page1.htm (175 words)

	131Worldwidedistribution of the Chaffe, Chaffey, Chafe Family Surname - 1016-1900
		John Chafe (c1685-1759) from Ipplepen/Berry Pomeroy in Devon.
		False doctrines are also called chaff (Jeremiah 23:28), or more correctly rendered "chopped straw." The destruction of the wicked, and their powerlessness, are likened to the carrying away of chaff by the wind (Isaiah 17:13; Hosea 13:3; Zephaniah 2:2).
		Chaf (mar, "bitter"; hence, bitter of soul, deadly, destructive, ferocious, "as a bear robbed of her whelps"): Occurs in II Samuel 17:8; used by Hushai to characterize David's supposedly fierce mood at the time of Absalom's armed rebellion.
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	Matthew Glozier's Heraldry Site
		Hastings, Sir John de, 3rd Earl of Pembroke, (k.1391), Knight of the Garter, English Noble.
		Haynes, John, Governor of New England, of co. Essex.
		Holwell, John Zephaniah, Governor of Bengal, Survivor of the 'Black Hole' of Calcutta.
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	Bell Catalog - Hs
		Alexander Hamilton, who spent his time there from the year 1688 to 1723 trading and travelling, by sea and land, to most of the countries and islands of commerce and navigation, between the Cape of Good-Hope, and the island of Japon.
		John Harrison’s time-keeper : subsequent to those published in the year 1763.
		The seaman’s daily assistant : being a short, easy, and plain method of keeping a journal at sea : in which are contained rules shewing how the allowances for leeway, variation, heave of the sea, set of currents, &c.
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	John Zephaniah Holwell - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation John Zephaniah Holwell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		John Zephaniah Holwell - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation John Zephaniah Holwell.
		Here you will find more informations about John Zephaniah Holwell.
		Became a Doctor and then went to India where he was stationed at Fort William.
	www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/John-Zephaniah-Holwell.html (154 words)

	The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, London 1674 to 1834
		(M.) Edward Williams was indicted, for that he, on the 8th of September, about the hour of two in the night, the dwelling-house of John Zephaniah Holwell did break and enter, and stealing one silver coffee-pot, value 3 l.
		John Zephaniah ; he has a house in Harley-street, Cavendish-square: I fastened all the doors of the house, about nine o'clock on Saturday night, the 8th of September.
		There are two: the family was not in town; I was the only person that was in the house.
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	ScienceDaily: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Duck-billed Dino Crests Not Linked To Sense Of Smell (January 31, 2006) -- After decades of debate, a U of T researcher has finally determined that duck-billed dinosaurs' massive but hollow crests had nothing to do with what many scientists suspected -- the sense of smell.
		Treatment Of Down Syndrome In Mice Restores Nerve Growth In Cerebellum (January 31, 2006) -- Researchers at Johns Hopkins restored the normal growth of specific nerve cells in the cerebellum of mouse models of Down syndrome that were stunted by this genetic condition.
		Archaeologists Uncover One Of Biggest Medieval Graveyards (January 31, 2006) -- University of Leicester archaeologists are beginning work on examining the largest discovery of medieval skeletons -- numbering 1,300 -- to be found outside London.
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	Newspaper Transcripts
		John Johnstone, of Castle Steads; Joseph Tiffen Senhouse, of Calder Abbey; and John Hamilton, of Whitehaven, Esqrs.- Cheshire Joseph Green, of Poulton Lancelyn; Roger Barnston, of Churton; and James Mainwaring, of Bromborrow, Esqrs.- Derbyshire.
		Jos.Walker, of Aston-upon-Trent; Richard Arkwright, of Cromford ; and John Bagshaw, of the Oaks, Esqrs.-Leicestershire.
		Sunday was married, John Thornton, Esq; of Hull, to Miss Harrison, youngest daughter of the late William Harrison, Esq; of Tipthorp, in this county.
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	D & E Lake Ltd. ABAC/ILAB at antiqbook.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		AYEruHAY82: HAYES, JOHN W. Etruscan and Italic Pottery in the Royal Ontario Museum A Catalogue.
		AWAeHOWA48: HOWAT, JOHN K. The Hudson River And Its Painters.
		CGHrlHUG0: HUGHSON, JOHN W. Hurling Down The Pine...The story of the Wright, Gilmour and Hughson families, timber and lumber manufactures in the Hull and Ottawa region and on the Gatineau River, 1800-1920.
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	Ø Wilson's Almanac free daily ezine \| Book of Days \| June 20 \| Hogueras de San Juan the bonfires of St John ...
		June 24 (St John’s Day), known in Alicante as the Nit del Foc, following a huge palmera (a firework display that can be seen all over the city) at St Barbara Castle, the monuments are fuel for the cremà.
		John’s Grass was given to the cows and sand was sifted onto their heads; this caused the cows to have sweet milk.
		However, modern scholarship suggests that the story, which was used as colonial propaganda by the British, did not occur as Holwell said, or at least was embellished by him.
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	The AnswerBank - post questions and answers, and discuss topics of interest. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		A survivor by the name of John Zephaniah Holwell claimed that he shared the cell with 145 other prisoners, and that 123 of them died during confinement.
		There are scholars who believe that the hellish incident was nothing more than a figment of Holwell's imagination.
		Whether or not the event was true, the captives' nickname for their lock-up became a well-known phrase that is used to this day: the Black Hole of Calcutta.
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