Inscription
To The Memory of Sir George Saville Bart.:
Who, In Five Successive Parliaments,
Represented The County Of York.
The Public Love. And Esteem, Of His Fellow Citizens,
Have Decreed This Monument.
In Private Life, He Was Benevolent, And Sincere;
His Charities Were Extensive And Secret;
His Whole Heart Was Formed. On Principles
Of Generosity. Mildness, Justice, And Universal Candour.
In Public, The Patron Of Every National Improvement;
In Senate, Incorrupt;
In His Commerce With The World, Disinterested.
By Genius, Enlightened In The Means Of Doing Good,
He Was Unwearied In Doing It.
His Life Was An Ornament, And A Blessing To The Age,
In Which He Lived, And, After Death, His Memory
Will Continue Yo Be Beneficial To Mankind;
By Holding Forth An Example, Of Pure, And Unaffected Virtue,
Most Worthy of Imitation. To The Latest Posterity!
He Departed This Life Janry. The 9th. 1784,
In the 58th. Year Of His Age,
Beloved, And Lamented.
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