Historical Description of Westminster Abbey, Its Monuments and Curiosities — John Shaqi
Historical Description of Westminster Abbey, Its Monuments and CuriositiesAnonymous
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Historical Description of Westminster Abbey, Its Monuments and Curiosities
Anonymous
Westminster Abbey
The next consists of a delicate female figure, mourning over two urns,
holding a scroll, on which is expressed--"I shall go to them, but they
shall not return to me.--2 Sam. xii. 23." BENJAMIN JOHN FORBES, late
Lieutenant in his Majesty's seventy-fourth regiment of foot; and RICHARD
GORDON FORBES, late Lieutenant in the first regiment of Foot Guards, the
eldest sons of Lieutenant-General Gordon Forbes, Colonel of the
twenty-ninth regiment of foot, and Margaret, his wife, eldest daughter of
the late Benjamin Sullivan, Esq., of Dromenagh, in the county of Cork;
both of whom fell in the service of their king and country, deeply
regretted by their regiments and the detachments of the army in which they
served. The former at the assault of Kistnagherry, in the East Indies,
12th November, 1791, aged nineteen years; the latter near Alkmaar, in
North Holland, the 19th of September, 1799, aged twenty years. This
monument, no less a tribute of justice to exemplary merit, than a record
of the tenderest parental sense of filial piety, is erected and dedicated
A.D. 1803.--_Bacon, jun., sculptor._
A third, to the memory of General STUART, having a fine medallion of him;
the Latin inscription is to the following purport:--"In memory of a man
truly noble, the Honourable Sir CHARLES STUART, Knight of the Bath, fourth
son of John, Earl of Bute, who began his military career in America; and
was afterwards sent, during the raging of the war with France,
Commander-in-Chief against Corsica and Minorca, both which he happily
subdued. He was again called forth, agreeably to the wishes of all good
men, and already destined, by the favour of his Sovereign, to greater
appointments, but died at Richmond, in the year of our Lord 1801, aged
forty-seven, leaving the public, as well as his friends, to deplore, and
that deeply, the loss of so great a man, on whose extraordinary talents,
military conduct, and approved valour, whether dangers were to be averted,
or her wrongs avenged, his country could at all times rely with the
greatest security and confidence."--_Nollekens, sculptor._
The last in this Chapel is one to the memory of Lieutenant-General WILLIAM
ANNE VILLETTES, second son of Arthur Villettes, Esq., his late Majesty's
Minister Plenipotentiary at the Court of Turin, and Helvetic Cantons, who
died near Port Antonio, on the 13th July, 1808, aged fifty-four years.
"The sculptur'd marble shall dissolve in dust,
And fame, and wealth, and honour pass away
Not such the triumphs of the good and just,
Not such the glories of eternal day."
W. Cartwright, T. Bowdler, J. Cazenove, have erected this tablet as a
tribute of friendship.--_Sir Richard Westmacott, sculptor._
At the north end of this Chapel is an elegant painted window, representing
St. Cecilia playing upon an organ, accompanied by three angels, in memory
of Mr. VINCENT NOVELLO, by Lavers and Barraud. Born 1781; died 1861.
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