REV. FRANCIS HUMBERSTONE was born at Ampthill, Bedfordshire, in 1791,
and was trained at Newport-Pagnell college. He came to Jamaica in
1818 as curate of the parish of Kingston, and was appointed chaplain
to the Corporation of that town in the following year, at a salary
of £420 per annum, and chaplain to the 61st Regiment. He died on
August 9 in the same year after only nine months’ residence in the
island, in which time he made a reputation as a very fervent and
fearless preacher; preaching especially on behalf of the slaves. The
tablet to his memory was erected by the Corporation, which also paid
£210 to his widow.
REV. ISAAC MANN, M.A., was rector of Kingston from 1813 to 1828. He
was chaplain of the Provincial Grand Lodge, and Past Master of the
Sussex Lodge, No. 8, in Kingston. He died in 1828, aged fifty-one. A
monument was erected to his memory in the churchyard by the Brethren
of these Lodges.
DR. EDWARD NATHANIEL BANCROFT was born in London in 1772. He graduated
bachelor of medicine at Cambridge in 1794, and was in the following
year appointed physician to the Forces. In 1804 he took his degree
as M.D., and commenced to practise in London. He became a Fellow of
the Royal College of Physicians. In 1811 he gave up practice in
London and resumed his duties as physician of the Forces, and came
to Jamaica, where he resided till his death in Kingston in 1842,
when he held the post of deputy inspector-general of Army hospitals.
The mural tablet was erected to his memory “by the Physicians and
Surgeons of Jamaica.” One of his earliest writings was due to
conflict with his brother army medical officers—“Exposure of
misrepresentations by Dr. McGrigor and Dr. Jackson to the
Commissioners of Military Enquiry” (1808); but he is best remembered
by his “Essay on the Disease called Yellow Fever, with observations
concerning Febrile Contagion, Typhus Fever, Dysentery, and the
Plague, partly delivered as the Gulstonian Lectures before the
College of Physicians in the years 1806 and 1807” (1811 and 1817).
In 1839 he published in Jamaica “A Letter to the Hon. Hector
Mitchell on the proposed erection of a new Lunatic Asylum,” and in
the following year he issued another “representing the total
unfitness of the present Asylum for Lunatics, and the urgent
necessity for building a new Lunatic Asylum in a proper situation.”
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