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    Curious Epitaphs

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    Release dateNov 26, 2013
    Curious Epitaphs
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    William Andrews

    For more than thirty years, William Andrews was a copywriter and a marketing/brand executive with several Fortune 500 companies. For fifteen years, he ran his own advertising agency. At night and on weekends (and sometimes during the workday!), Bill wrote fiction. His first novel, The Essential Truth, won first place in the 2008 Mayhaven Contest for fiction. The Dragon Queen is Bill’s fourth novel and is the second book in his trilogy about Korea, which includes Daughters of the Dragon—A Comfort Woman’s Story and a planned third book. Today, Bill is retired and focused on his writing. He lives in Minneapolis with his wife, who’s been an inner-city schoolteacher for thirty-two years.

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      Curious Epitaphs - William Andrews

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      Title: Curious Epitaphs

      Author: Various

      Editor: William Andrews

      Release Date: April 25, 2012 [EBook #39532]

      Language: English

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      CURIOUS EPITAPHS.

      MARTYRS’ MONUMENT, EDINBURGH.

      Curious

      Epitaphs

      Collected and Edited with Notes

      By William Andrews

      LONDON:

      WILLIAM ANDREWS & CO., 5, FARRINGDON AVENUE, E.C.

      1899.

      THIS BOOK IS

      DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF

      CUTHBERT BEDE, B.A.,

      Author of Verdant Green, etc.,

      AS A TOKEN OF GRATITUDE FOR

      LITERARY ASSISTANCE AND SYMPATHY

      GIVEN IN YEARS AGONE,

      BUT NOT FORGOTTEN.

      W. A.

      Preface.

      This work first appeared in 1883 and quickly passed out of print. Some important additions are made in the present volume. It is hoped that in its new form the book may find favour with the public and the press.

      William Andrews.

      The Hull Press,

      May Day, 1899 .

      Contents.

      CURIOUS EPITAPHS.

      Epitaphs on Tradesmen.

      Many interesting epitaphs have been placed to the memory of tradesmen. Often they are not of an elevating character, nor highly poetical, but they display the whims and oddities of men. We will first present a few relating to the watch and clock-making trade. The first specimen is from Lydford churchyard, on the borders of Dartmoor:—

      Here lies, in horizontal position,

      the outside case of

      George Routleigh, Watchmaker;

      Whose abilities in that line were an honour

      to his profession.

      Integrity was the Mainspring, and prudence the

      Regulator,

      of all the actions of his life.

      Humane, generous, and liberal,

      his Hand never stopped

      till he had relieved distress.

      So nicely regulated were all his motions,

      that he never went wrong,

      except when set a-going

      by people

      who did not know his Key;

      even then he was easily

      set right again.

      He had the art of disposing his time so well,

      that his hours glided away

      in one continual round

      of pleasure and delight,

      until an unlucky minute put a period to

      his existence.

      He departed this life

      Nov. 14, 1802,

      aged 57:

      wound up,

      in hopes of being taken in hand

      by his Maker;

      and of being thoroughly cleaned, repaired,

      and set a-going

      in the world to come.

      In the churchyard of Uttoxeter, a monument is placed to the memory of Joseph Slater, who died November 21st, 1822, aged 49 years:—

      Our next is from Berkeley, Gloucestershire:—

      The following is from Bolsover churchyard, Derbyshire:—

      Here

      lies, in a horizontal position, the outside

      case of

      Thomas Hinde,

      Clock and Watch-maker,

      Who departed this life, wound up in hope of

      being taken in hand by his Maker, and being

      thoroughly cleaned, repaired, and set a-going

      in the world to come,

      On the 15th of August, 1836,

      In the 19th year of his age.

      Respecting the next example, Mr. Edward Walford, M.A., wrote to the Times as follows: Close to the south-western corner of the parish churchyard of Hampstead there has long stood a square tomb, with a scarcely decipherable inscription, to the memory of a man of science of the last century, whose name is connected with the history of practical navigation. The tomb, having stood there for more than a century, had become somewhat dilapidated, and has lately undergone a careful restoration at the cost and under the supervision of the Company of Clock-makers, and the fact is recorded in large characters on the upper face. The tops of the upright iron railings which surround the tomb have been gilt, and the restored inscription runs as follows:—

      In memory of Mr. John Harrison, late of Red Lion-square, London, inventor of the time-keeper for ascertaining the longitude at sea. He was born at Foulby, in the county of York, and was the son of a builder of that place, who brought him up to the same profession. Before he attained the age of 21, he, without any instruction, employed himself in cleaning and repairing clocks and watches, and made a few of the former, chiefly of wood. At the age of 25 he employed his whole time in chronometrical improvements. He was the inventor of the gridiron pendulum, and the method of preventing the effects of heat and cold upon time-keepers by two bars fixed together; he introduced the secondary spring, to keep them going while winding up, and was the inventor of most (or all) the improvements in clocks and watches during his time. In the year 1735 his first time keeper was sent to Lisbon, and in 1764 his then much improved fourth time-keeper having been sent to Barbadoes, the Commissioners of Longitude certified that he had determined the longitude within one-third of half a degree of a great circle, having not erred more than forty seconds in time. After sixty years’ close application to the above pursuits, he departed this life on the 24th day of March, 1776, aged 83.

      In an epitaph in High Wycombe churchyard, life is compared to the working of a clock. It runs thus:—

      We have some curious specimens of engineers’ epitaphs. A good example is copied from the churchyard of Bridgeford-on-the-Hill, Notts:—

      Sacred to the memory of John Walker, the only son of Benjamin and Ann Walker, Engineer and Pallisade Maker, died September 22nd, 1832, aged 36 years.

      Our next is on a railway engine-driver, who died in 1840, and was buried in Bromsgrove churchyard:—

      In the Ludlow churchyard is a headstone to the memory of John Abingdon who for forty years drove the Ludlow stage to London, a trusty servant, a careful driver, and an honest man. He died in 1817, and his epitaph is as follows:—

      The epitaph we next give is on the driver of the coach that ran between Aylesbury and London, by the Rev. H. Bullen, Vicar of Dunton, Bucks, in whose churchyard the man was buried:—

      Lord Byron wrote on John Adams, carrier, of Southwell, Nottinghamshire, an epitaph as follows:—

      On Hobson, the famous University carrier, the following lines were written:—

      In Trinity churchyard, Sheffield, formerly might be seen an epitaph on a bookseller, as follows:—

      The following epitaph was written on James Lackington, a celebrated bookseller, and eccentric character:—

      At Rugby, on Joseph Cave, Dr. Hawksworth wrote:—

      Near this place lies the body of

      Joseph Cave,

      Late of this parish;

      Who departed this life Nov. 18, 1747,

      Aged 79 years.

      He was placed by Providence in a humble station; but industry abundantly supplied the wants of nature, and temperance blest him with content and wealth. As he was an affectionate father, he was made happy in the decline of life by the deserved eminence of his eldest son,

      Edward Cave,

      who, without interest, fortune, or connection, by the native force of his own genius, assisted only by a classical education, which he received at the Grammar School of this town, planned, executed, and established a literary work called

      The Gentleman’s Magazine,

      whereby he acquired an ample fortune, the whole of which devolved to his family.

      Here also lies

      The body of William Cave,

      second son of the said Joseph Cave, who died May 2, 1757, aged 62 years, and who, having survived his elder brother,

      Edward Cave,

      inherited from him a competent estate; and, in gratitude to his benefactor, ordered this monument to perpetuate his memory.

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