Inscription
North side: This tomb is erected to the Memory of / ALEXANDER BRODIE Esq. / late of Carey Street, in the Liberty of the Rolls, London, and Callcutt, in the County of Salop / First inventor of the register stoves and fire hearths for ships, and had the / honour of supplying the whole British navy with the latter, for upwards of / thirty years. To the preservation of many valuable lives, since their intro- / duction, and was a great service to government; by which, with his own / industry, he accumulated a large fortune / Died 6th January, 1811 / Aged 78 years.
West side: MARY, the wife of ALEXANDER BRODIE Esq. / died 13th of August, 1777, aged 32 years / Likewise their only child, who died in its infancy.
South side: JANE HOWARD died 18 Apl. 1755 aged 65 / RICHARD HOWARD died 24 Apl. 1762 aged 78 / Also two of their children who died in infancy.
East side: Sacred memory of / Mrs. BEATRICE COOK, Widow of / Mr. DAVID COOK who was drowned / at Boulogne Sur Mer / October 14th 1818 and niece / of ALEXANDER BRODIE Esq. / She died after a painful and lingering illness / which she bore with great / patience and resignation / on 23rd Mar.1840 / in the 71st year of her age.
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