Augustus Cleveland

Augustus Clevland (1754–1784) was an East India Company administrator in the Province of Bengal, a Collector of the Revenues and a Judge of the Dewanny Adawlut of the Districts of Bhagalpur and various others. He was very hostile towards the native Indians, after the 1777 famine the natives revolted against the company and he was killed by the rebellion leader Tilka manjhi. He died in mid-career at the early age of 30. Origins He was the 6th son of John Clevland (1706-1763) of Tapeley, in the parish of Westleigh, near Bideford, in North Devon, England, his 2nd son by his third wife Sarah Shuckburgh (d.1764), whom he married in 1747, a daughter of Charles Shuckburgh of Longborough, Gloucestershire and a sister of Sir Charles Shuckburgh, 5th Baronet (1722–1773). Clevland is said to have been a cousin of John Shore, 1st Baron Teignmouth, Governor-General of India. Career Clevland was an Indian administrator. He was collector and magistrate of Bhagalpur, Bengal, and died in his twenty-ninth year. Two monuments were erected by East India Company; First by Warren Hastings at Calcutta, and the second in the district of Bhagalpur by the company; John Shore wrote a remarkable monody on his early death; and Lord Hastings re-established the school which Cleveland had founded and revived his corps of mountaineers. Death He was killed by Tilka Majhi on 12 January 1784, when he was hit by an arrow. At that time Clevland was riding a horse.