Sake Dean Mahomed LifeStory,Happy Birthday, Sake Dean Mahomed 2019

Happy Birthday, Sake Dean Mahomed 2019

January 15, 2019

St Nicholas Church is one of the oldest buildings standing in Brighton Its cornerstone dates from the Saxon period, and the church was mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086.

Who was Sake Dean Mahomed.?

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• St Nicholas is known as the patron saint of fishermen. A drawing in the British

Dr. Brighton, Sake Dean Mahomed (1759-1851) is buried in the churchyard. He was born in India He served in the army of the British East India Company as a trainee surgeon. He emigrated to Ireland in 1786 to study English, where he met and married an Irish girl named Jane Daly. While in Cork he wrote and published his book, entitled 'The Travels of Dean Mahomet', which was the first book published by an Indian in English. A copy is in Brighton A free copy can be obtained from here

Sake Dean Mahomed moved to London, where he opened the first Indian restaurant in England - The Hindoostane Coffee House, located at Portland Square London, which is now commemorated by a wall plaque.

In 1814 Sake Dean and Jane, his Irish wife, moved to Brighton and opened the first shampooing vapor masseur bath in England. He described the treatment in a local paper as 'The Indian Medicated Vapour Bath' (type of Turkish bath), a cure to many diseases and giving full relief when everything went to failure; specifically Rheumatic and paralytic, gout, stiff joints, old sprains, lame less, aches and pains in the joints.

So successful was his treatment that doctors referred patients to him. Both King George IV and William IV were appointed as their shampooing surgeon in Brighton.

Mahomed's Bath stood on the site now occupied by the Queen's Hotel, Brighton. Both Sake Dean and Jane are buried in St. Nicholas Church.

• Sake Dean Mahomed LifeStory,Happy Birthday, Sake Dean Mahomed 2019