The Late Captain Basevi, R.E.

Abstract

A LETTER in the Times of the 19th.inst., from Col. J. D. Walker, R.E., announces the death of Captain James Palladio Basevi, of the Royal (late Bengal) Engineers, Deputy-Superintendent of the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India, an officer of great worth and ability, whose loss will be long felt in the department of the public service to which he belonged. He was the son of the celebrated architect, George Basevi, and was distinguished as a lad for more than ordinary talent, and particularly for his mathematical abilities. First at Rugby, then at Cheltenham College, and afterwards at Addiscombe, he won for himself a high position among his fellow students, and in December, 1851, he left Addiscombe as the first cadet of his term, obtaining the first prize in mathematics, the sword for good conduct, the Pollock medal, and a commission in the Honourable East India Company's Corps of Engineers.