London and Its Environs Described, vol. 1 (of 6): Containing an Account of Whatever is Most Remarkable for Grandeur, Elegance, Curiosity or Use, in the City and in the Country Twenty Miles Round ItAnonymous
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London and Its Environs Described, vol. 1 (of 6): Containing an Account of Whatever is Most Remarkable for Grandeur, Elegance, Curiosity or Use, in the City and in the Country Twenty Miles Round It
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London (England) -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800; London (England) -- Gazetteers -- Early works to 1800
Sacred to the memory
Of Sir PETER WARREN,
Knight of the Bath,
Vice-Admiral of the Red Squadron
Of the British Fleet,
And Member of Parliament
For the City and Liberty of Westminster.
And a little lower:
He derived his descent from an ancient Family of IRELAND,
His fame and honours from his virtues and abilities.
How eminently these were displayed,
With what vigilance and spirit they were exerted,
In the various services wherein he had the honour to command,
And the happiness to conquer,
Will be more properly recorded in the annals of
GREAT BRITAIN.
On this tablet, affection with truth may say,
That deservedly esteemed in private life,
And universally renowned for his public conduct,
The judicious and gallant officer
Possessed all the amiable qualities of the Friend,
The Gentleman, and the Christian.
But the ALMIGHTY,
Whom alone he feared,
And whose gracious protection he had often experienced,
Was pleased to remove him from a life of honour
To an eternity of happiness,
On the 29th day of July 1752, in the 49th year of his age.
On the bottom of the base:
Susannah, his afflicted wife, caused this monument
to be erected.
77. The monument inscribed to the memory of Sir Gilbert Lort, of
Stackpole in Pembrokeshire, who died Sept. 19, 1698, was erected to
his memory by his sister Dame Elizabeth Campbell of Calder in
Scotland. The author of _The Review of the public buildings_, &c.
observes, that the two boys here placed on each side a little tomb,
are in a very pretty taste, and a perfect contrast to each other; one
representing passionate, exclamatory grief, and the other still and
silent; and adds, “’Tis pity they are divided by so bad an ornament in
the middle: had they leaned on a single urn, which, in the antique
taste, might have been supposed to hold his ashes, they would have had
a fine effect, and challenged more admiration than many a more pompous
and expensive pile.”
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