History of Brighthelmston; or, Brighton as I View it and Others Knew It: With a Chronological Table of Local EventsErredge, John Ackerson
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History of Brighthelmston; or, Brighton as I View it and Others Knew It: With a Chronological Table of Local Events
Erredge, John Ackerson
Brighton (England) -- History
Here lyeth Anne ye wife of Richard Halsted, aged 23, and Elizabeth
aged 22 years, both daughters of Henry and Mary Stanbridge, who dyed
in May, 1728.
They were two louing sisters,
Who in this dust now ly, that
Uery day Anne was buryd
Elizabeth did dy.
Just at this spot, also, a stone points out the last resting place of the
celebrated Sake Deen Mahomed, the introducer of shampooing into England,
in 1784. He died on the 24th of February, 1851, at the advanced age of
102 years. By the pathway at the south-east of the chancel are deposited
the remains of Martha Gunn, the royal bather of Brighton, who died May
2nd, 1815, at the age of 88 years. Her companion of the bath, Smoaker
Miles, is buried near the west boundary wall of the church-yard,
immediately opposite Upper North Street. The spot is marked by a
tombstone, but the inscription has been wholly obliterated by time. To
the east of the stone which marks Martha Gunn’s grave, is the tomb of
Swan Downer, Esq., who endowed the school for girls, known as Swan
Downer’s School, and immediately to the west is a large headstone thus
inscribed:—
PHŒBE HESSEL,
Who was born at Stepney, in the Year, 1713.
She served for many years as a Private Soldier in the
Fifth Regiment of Foot in different parts of Europe,
and in the year 1745 fought under the command of the
Duke of Cumberland, at the battle of Fontenoy,
Where she received a Bayonet Wound in her Arm.
Her long life, which commenced in the Reign of
Queen ANNE, extended to that of King GEORGE IV.,
By whose munificence she received comfort and support
in her latter days. She died at Brighton,
where she had long resided,
December 12th, 1821, aged 108.
The remains of Corporal Staines, a marine who fought under Nelson, at
Copenhagen, lie at the foot of old Phœbe’s grave.
The following punning epitaph on the headstone, which marks the spot
where rest the remains of a Mr. Law, to the south-west of the church, has
excited particular notice:—
Stop, Reader! and reflect with awe,
For sin and death have conquered law;
Who, in full hope, resign’d his breath,
That grace had conquered sin and death.
Mr. Law, who was an inhabitant, lost his life by accidentally walking
over the cliff, between the New Steine and the Royal Crescent.
To the east of the Chancel door a massive stone points out where are
deposited the mortal remains of a great Brighton celebrity, Captain
Tettersell. It is thus inscribed:—
P. M. S.
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