Captain
Albert de BOIS SHROSBREE
Cavalry
Died: 7th January 1939 - Age: 58

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Early Life :

Albert de Bois Shrosbree was born to Thomas George and Maria [Jarvis] in 1881. He was born Albert de Vere Shrosbee but later changed his name. In 1901 aged 20 still living with his parents and his two sisters, Ada Maria and Edith Maud, Battersey, he is working as a municipal Clerk. In 1905 he married Gertrude Eleanor Winifred Rhoda Langman. There were no natural born children but 2 adopted named John and Anne. He went to India and was the chief valuer of the Calcutta Improvement Trust from 1912. He became the Leading violinist and later the conductor at the Calcutta School of music. He took over this role after the C.S.O conductor Sadre retired.

Education & Career :


Albert de bois Shrosbree published a thesis on the state of buildings in Calcutta (Kolkata) and was a member of the precursor of the Architects society, He was at some point rewarded with a silver medal by the society.

Albert de Bois Shrosbree, Calcutta Improvement Trust. Note on Barrabazar Improvements (Calcutta: CIT, Estates and Valuation Department, 1916)

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Action : War Survivor 

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1917 Calcutta Light Horse

Detail :

Probate SHROSBEE Albert Thomas otherwise Albert de Bois of the Dower House Longwood near Winchester and of Calcutta India died 7 January 1939 at Calcutta Probate London 10 August to John Norman Sursham solicitors managing clerk and Ernes William John West retired accountant. Effects £39123 13s. 7d.

The notice of his death appears in the London Gazette 13 March 1942, p. 1189:

"ALBERT DE BOIS SHROSBREE, Deceased. pursuant to the Trustee Act, 1925.
NOTICE is hereby given that all creditors and other persons having any debts claims or demands
against the estate of the late Albert Thomas Shrosbree otherwise and more generally known as Albert "de Bois Shrosbree, late of The Dower House Longwood near Winchester in the county of Hants and of Calcutta in India, who died on the 7th day of January 1939 and whose Will was proved in the Principal Probate Registry in England on the loth August 1939 by John Norman Sursham and Ernest William John West, the executors therein named, are hereby required to send in particulars of their debts claims and demands to the undersigned on or before the 1st day of June 1942 after which date the executors will proceed to distribute the assets and estate of the said deceased amongst the parties entitled thereto, having regard only to the debts claims and demands of which the executors shall then have had notice and they will not be liable for the assets of the said deceased or any part thereof so distributed, to any person or persons of whose debts claims or demands they shall not then have had notice.—Dated this 12th day of March 1942."

Masonic :

TypeLodge Name and No.Province/District :
Mother : Old Sinjins No. 3232 E.C.London
Joined : Lodge Concordia No. 3102 E.C. Devonshire
Joined : Lodge of Industry and Perseverance No. 109 E.C. London

Initiated
Passed
Raised
6th November 1912
5th March 1913
7th May 1913
 

He was initiated into Old Sinjins Lodge in 1913. He went on to join Lodge Concordia 3102 1905 Calcutta, West Bengal, however, he is not shown on this Lodge's records. We know this because he further joined Lodge Industry & Perseverance No. 109 in Calcutta, in 1918 and he uses Lodge Concordia No. 3102 as the lodge he joined from.

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