Lt Col Roger Townshend

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Reference WMO/284615

Address:

Westminster Abbey

Deans Yard

Westmiinster

London

SW1P 3PA

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Non freestanding
Location: Internal
Setting: Inside a building - public/private
Description: Board/Plaque/ Tablet
Materials:
  • Stone Marble
Lettering: Incised
Conflicts:
  • Seven Years War (1756-1763)
About the memorial: Large marble monument with at the centre an elaborately ornamented sarcophagus supported by two caryatids in the form of armed native american Indians and surmounted by trophies of war. The monument is set against a red marble triangular backdrop and matching plinth for the caryatids. A finely carved sculptured relief of a military skirmish between the British and the French at Ticonderoga is on the front face of the sarcophagus. A square dedicatory tablet is mounted between the caryatids. In the south aisle of the nave.
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THIS MONUMENT WAS ERECTED/BY A DISCONSOLATE PARENT, /THE LADY VISCOUNTESS TOWNSHEND,/TO THE MEMORY OF HER FIFTH SON/THE HONBLE. LIEUT. COLONEL ROGER TOWNSHEND,/WHO WAS KILLED BY A CANNON BALL./ON THE 25TH OF JULY 1759 IN THE 28TH YEAR OF HIS AGE,/ AS HE WAS RECONNOITRING YE FRENCH LINES AT TICONDEROGA/ IN NORTH AMERICA./FROM THE PARENT, THE BROTHER, AND THE FRIEND,/HIS SOCIAL AND AMIABLE MANNERS,/HIS ENTERPRIZING BRAVERY,/AND THE INTEGRITY OF HIS HEART,/MAY CLAIM THE TRIBUTE OF AFFLICTION:/YET STRANGER, WEEP NOT;/FOR, THO' PREMATURE HIS DEATH,/HIS LIFE WAS GLORIOUS;/ENROLLING HIM WITH THE NAMES/OF THOSE IMMORTAL STATESMEN AND COMMANDERS/WHOSE WISDOM AND INTREPIDITY/IN THE COURSE OF THIS COMPREHENSIVE AND SUCCESSFULL WAR,/HAVE EXTENDED THE COMMERCE,/ENLARGED THE DOMINION,/AND UPHELD THE MAJESTY OF THESE KINGDOMS,/BEYOND THE IDEA OF ANY FORMAL AGE.

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