Henry de Burgh Bancroft Espeut

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About Henry de Burgh Bancroft Espeut

Zimbabwe DN: Death Registers, 1892-1977; Vol 3, page 152 (image 82) -https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939N-CFS5-R9?i=81&wc=M6...

http://branchingout.brinkster.net/melsetter/chap3a.html - this page of The Story of Melsetter gives his full name, confirms that he was a Moodie Trekker, and describes his death).

In https://www.bayanne.info/Shetland/getperson.php?personID=I25414&tre... it states that "Henry's tragic death is reputed to have been caused by him eating some biscuits on to which hydrogen cyanide had leaked".

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Henry de Burgh Bancroft Espeut's Timeline

1859
April 9, 1859
Jamaica
1896
August 9, 1896
Age 37
Chikuguas Kraal, Melsetter District, Manicaland, Rhodesia (Zimbabwe)