HBG pays homage to heroes from Bengal buried at Kensal Green cemetery

Heritage Bengal Global, a community organisation in the UK, hosted a commemorative event at the Kensal Green cemetery on 5 August noon, to mark Dwarkanath Tagore’s death anniversary, who is buried at the cemetery, as a part of the ongoing South Asian Heritage Month. People from the community, braved the weather and gathered to pay homage to the late Dwarkanath who died "at the peak of his for- tune" on the evening of 1 August 1846 at the St. George's Hotel in London.
In his obituary, The London Mail newspaper of 7 August wrote: "Descended from the highest Brahmin caste of India his family can prove a long and undoubted pedigree. But it is not on account of this nobility that we now review his life but on far better grounds. However gifted, his claims rest on a higher pedestal – he was the benefactor of his country... [T]hey testified to his merits in the encouragement of every public and private undertaking likely to benefit India."
The occasion also provided an opportunity to pay homage to another great son of Bengal, Soorjo Kumar Goodeve Chuckerbutty (Soorjo Kumar Chakravorty)- the first Bengali MD of the NHS in the UK, who is also buried at the same cemetery.
Another big Bengal connect at the cemetery is the cenotaph of Major General William Casement, of the Bengal Army, built by his wife in his memory as he was buried in Kolkata, India. William was also a Member of the Supreme Council of India.