318. CONGREVE (69). In memory of Mrs. Rebecca CONGREVE [she was the daughter of Fleet ELMSTONE, Esq.], the wife of Major William Congreve, of the Royal Regiment of Artillery, who died the 1st of April, 1791, aged 32 years..
Source: Online,
Kent Churchyard Monument Memorial Inscriptions.
Kent Archaeological Society.
318. CONGREVE (69). In memory of Mrs. Rebecca CONGREVE [she was the daughter of Fleet ELMSTONE, Esq.], the wife of Major William Congreve, of the Royal Regiment of Artillery, who died the 1st of April, 1791, aged 32 years..
Source: Online,
Kent Churchyard Monument Memorial Inscriptions.
Kent Archaeological Society.
Inscription
Churchyard Plan, Burial Plot 69.
In memory of
Mrs. Rebecca CONGREVE
the daughter of
Fleet ELMSTONE, Esq.,
the wife of
Major William CONGREVE,
of the Royal Regiment of
Artillery, who died the
1st of April 1791
aged 32 years.
Also of
Miss Rebecca Janet CONGREVE,
daughter of the above
who died the
29 of March 1780
aged 7 months and 8 days.
Also in memory of
Lieutenant General
Sir William CONGREVE, Bart.,
Commander of the 8 Battalion
Royal Regiment of Artillery
and Controller of the Royal
Laboratory.
He died 30 April 1814
in the 71st year of his age.
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Churchyard Plan, Memorial Plot 38
Near this marble are deposited
the mortal remains of
Sir William CONGREVE, Baronet,
late Lieut.-General of
His Majesty's Forces and
Col.-Commandant of the
8th Batt. of the Royal Regiment
of Artillery, Controller of the
Royal Laboratory and Superintendent
of the Royal Military Repository,
of which most valuable Institution
he was the Founder.
His ardent devotion to his country's
service in his military character
and his inflexible integrity in
the discharge of his civil offices
are universally acknowledged.
In the former he served with
distinguished reputation at the
sieges of Louisburg, the Havannah
and Martinique, in most of the
campaigns during the American War,
and commanded the Brigade of Artillery
under H.R.H. the Duke of York,
in Flanders.
In the latter he had the happiness
of saving his country more than
One million sterling, yet died
unenriched himself on the
30th April, 1814.
Dame Julia Elizabeth,
his widow,
she was daughter of
Daniel OLIVER,
of Blackheath,
and widow of General EYRE
died the 6th December 1832
in the 78th year of her age
humbly trusting in the atonement
of the Redeemer, Whose example
she prayerfully strove to follow
throughout a life of unobtrusive
charity.
Beneath this tablet are the arms:
Sable, a chevron argent between
3 battle axes heads to the dexter
or over all an oak-tree proper.
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