Memorial 17CH BENEATH THE TOWER OF THIS CHURCH THE SPOT SELECTED BY / HIMSELF ARE INTERRED THE REMAINS OF ROLAND FIRST VISCOUNT HILL WHO DIED DECEMBER 10TH 1842, IN THE 71ST YEAR OF HIS AGE IN HIM WAS COMBINED, IN AN UNUSUAL DEGREE GENTLENESS & FIRMNESS, HUMANITY AND HEROISM, CALMNESS AND ARDOUR OBTAINING FOR HIM NOT ONLY PUBLIC APPLAUSE BUT CORDIAL ESTEEM AND AFFECTION HIS WELL KNOWN SERVICES ARE RECORDED IN THE HISTORY OF HIS TIMES THEY RAISED HIM TO THE DISTINCTION OF THE PEERAGE AND OF GENERAL IN CHIEF COMMANDING BRITISH FORCES, THE DUTIES OF WHICH HIGH OFFICE HE DISCHARGED FOR MORE THAN FOURTEEN YEARS WITH REMARKABLE IMPARTIALLY AND EFFICIENCY. IN THE AUTUMN OF 1842 DECLINING HEALTH OBLIGED HIM TO RETIRE TO HIS NATIVE COUNTY WHERE HE HAD BEFORE SPENT MOST OF HIS HOURS OF RELAXATION IN THE CULTIVATION OF THE ARTS OF PEACE AND PROVED HIMSELF THE FRIEND OF AIL CLASSES AND THE SPECIAL BENEFACTOR OF THE POOR, THE EARTHLY HONORS CONFERRED UPON HIM DID NOT BLIND HIM TO HIS SPIRITUAL WANTS AND NECESSITIES NOR RENDER HIM INSENSIBLE TO HIS DEEP NEED OF A SAVIOUR HE PASSED THE BRIEF EVENING OF HIS REPOSE IN SINCERE PENITENCE AND PRAYER AND DIED IN PEACE LOOKING UNTO HIM ALONE WHO IS THE WAY, THE TRUTH, AND THE LIFE. |
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