Historical Description of Westminster Abbey, Its Monuments and CuriositiesAnonymous
History
Historical Description of Westminster Abbey, Its Monuments and Curiosities
Anonymous
Westminster Abbey
Against the wall, in the centre of the East Walk, is a monument to the
memory of GEORGE WALSH, Esq., with the following inscription:--"Near this
place are deposited the remains of George Walsh, Esq., late
Lieutenant-General of his Majesty's Forces, and Colonel of the forty-ninth
Regiment of Foot, who died October 23, 1761, aged seventy-three.
"The toils of life and pangs of death are o'er,
And care, and pain, and sickness, are no more."
To the memory of JAMES WILLIAM DODD, who for thirty-four years was one of
the Ushers of Westminster School, the duties of which he discharged with
consummate ability. The Westminsters, his pupils, resident at the
boarding-house under his immediate care, have, bewailing his loss, caused
this tablet to be erected. He died on the 29th day of August, 1818, in the
fifty-seventh year of his age.
Beneath is a monument to preserve and unite the memory of two affectionate
brothers, valiant soldiers and sincere Christians: SCIPIO DUROURE, Esq.,
Adjutant-General of the British Forces, Colonel of the twelfth Regiment of
Foot, and Captain or Keeper of his Majesty's Castle of St. Mawes, in
Cornwall, who, after forty-one years' faithful services, was mortally
wounded at the battle of Fontenoy, and died May 10, 1745, aged fifty-six
years, and lies interred on the ramparts of Aeth, in the low Countries;
and ALEXANDER DUROURE, Esq., Lieutenant-General of the British Forces,
Colonel of the Fourth, or King's own Regiment of Foot, and Captain or
Keeper of his Majesty's Castle of St. Mawes, in Cornwall, who, after
fifty-seven years of faithful services, died at Toulouse, in France, on
the 2nd January, 1795, aged seventy-four years, and lies interred in this
Cloister.
In the next arch has been lately erected a tablet, sacred to the memory of
WALTER HAWKES, who, serving in the East Indies, and having deserved well
during the space of more than twenty-seven years, almost worn out with
sickness and wounds, as he was now returning to his native country, being
overtaken by a storm in the Indian Ocean, was, together with his dearest
wife, the partner of his life and danger, alas! swallowed up, and perished
by shipwreck, never to be too much lamented, the year of our Lord 1808.
Struck with so sad a fate of his companion, William Franklin put up this
stone; for both were King's scholars in this school, brought up in the
same studies, together endured arduous warfare.
NORTH WALK.
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