slab, on which was inscribed the words, "They lived, they loved, they died". References in popular culture The names of Lyndoch township and the Barossa Valley in South Australia are derived from "Lynedoch Vale" and the "Barrosa Ranges", named by Colonel William Light, Surveyor General of South Australia, in December 1837 in recognition of his esteemed friend, Lord Lynedoch, who was his commander at the Battle of Barrosa. Both names were mis-spelt on early maps, resulting in the unique names Lyndoch and Barossa. Graham has a house named after him at the English Private school Wellington College. Graham is portrayed as a major character in Bernard Cornwell's Sharpe's Fury published in 2006. Cornwell portrays him as an affable Scottish patriot, who lends assistance to fictional hero Richard Sharpe throughout the novel. He was fictionally represented by name in Patrick Graham's Bollywood television series Betaal (2020). He was shown as being a practitioner of black magic in the series. In it, he raises his Zombie Army of the fictionally taken regiment of 90th Taunton Volunteers after 160 years. The regiment storms centuries-old barracks and fights a fictional state force ultimately to protect their land from outsiders. In the starting prelims of the first episode it shows a backscript as — 17 June 1857 "The Journal of Colonel Lynedoch" reads: "We came to help these people but they resist. The mutiny has reached us. How dare they? I will use their own guardians against them. I will harness the Betaal's curse and grind these savages into the dirt. It seems there are rebels in the tunnel. I must go...." As to display the anger of the Colonel against the mutineers in the 1857 rebellion of which the Colonel and his regiment had become a victim. See also was a merchant vessel launched in 1814 at Calcutta. After she sailed to England she made one voyage for the British East India Company (EIC). Between 1831 and 1841 she made five voyages transporting convicts to Australia, three to Hobart and two to Sydney. She became a transport and suffered a maritime incident in 1844. She was last listed in 1847. Arms Notes References Grant, Philip R (2019), A Peer Among Princes - The Life of Thomas Graham, Victor of Barrosa, Hero of the Peninsular War, Pen and Sword 2019, Attribution: Further reading External links |- |- |- |- 1748 births 1843 deaths Barons in