Yes He retired to Sussex from India. His House ?? Batemans?? was set back in from the coast.

Manys the pub/church/house in Sussex and Kent with thier old hidyholes and cellers. Dover, Whitstable, and the Thanet towns all had thier tunnels and such linking cellars.

Interestingly some 20 years or so ago when the "Dove" public house at Dargate, between Whitstable and Faversham was rebuilt the workmen broke into a hidden and forgotten celler, still containg "cask harnesses, and bats (cudgels) and old pistols.

Gareth

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