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In Memory Of MR. JOHN HARRISON, late of Red-Lion Square, London.
Inventor of the TIME-KEEPER for ascertaining the LONGITUDE at Sea. He was born at Foulby, in the County of York, and was the Son of a Builder at that Place, who brought him up to the same Profession. Before he attained the Age of 21, He without any Instruction, employed himself in cleaning & repairing Clocks & Watches & made a few of the former, chiefly of Wood. At the Age of 25 He employed his Whole Time in Chronometrical Improvements. He was the Inventor of the Gridiron Pendulum and the Method of preventing the Effect of Heat and Cold upon Time keepers by Two Bars of different Metals fixed together. He introduced the Secondary Spring to keep them going while winding up; and was the Inventor of most (or all) of the Improvements in Clocks & Watches during his Time.
In the Year 1735, his first Time keeper was sent to Lisbon, and in 1764 his then much Improved fourth Time keeper having been sent to Barbadoes, the Commissioners of Longitude certified that it had determined the Longitude within one Third of Half a Degree of a great Circle, having erred not more than 40 Seconds in Time.
After near fifty years close Application to the above Pursuits, he departed this Life on the 24th Day of March 1776, Aged 83.
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Here rests William Hazlitt born April 10, 1778, Died 18 September 1830. He lived to see his deepest wishes gratified as he has expressed them in his Essay On The Fear Of Death: Viz: To see the downfall of the Bourbons, And some prospect of good to mankind (Charles X was driven from France 29th July 18?? "To leave some sterling work to the world" (He lived to complete his "Life of Napoleon". His desire that some friendly hand should consign him to the grave was accomplished to a limited but profound extent; on these conditions he was ready to depart and to have inscribed on his tomb "Grateful and Contented". He was the first (unanswered) Metaphysician of the age, a despiser of the merely Rich and Great, A lover of the People, Poor or Opressed, a hater of the Pride and Power of the Few, as opposed to the happiness of the Many. A man of true moral courage who sacrificed Profit and present fame to Principle. And a yearning for the good of Human Nature, who was a burning wound to an Aristocracy. That could not answer him before men and who may confront him before their Maker. He lived and died The Unconquered Champion of Truth, Liberty and Humanity. Dubitantes opera legite. This stone is raised by one whose heart is with him, in his grave.
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The Reverend Ridley H Herschell late minister of Trinity Chapel, John Street, Edgware Road A Hebrew by birth educated in the Jewish faith, converted in early youth to belief in Christ, and evermore devoted to the service of his master. ?An honoured? labourer in the dissemination of Christian truth at home and abroad. An enlightened expounder of the Old and New Testament Sciptures. A fearless monitor and symnpathizing friend.
This monument is erected over his remains by his friends and members of his congregation, aided by a contribution from the D division of the Metropolitan Police, in whose welfare he took a special interest, as a record of their affection, esteem and gratitude and as a token of their grief. He departed this life on the 14th day of April 1864 aged 57 years.
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Sacred to the memory of {...illegible...} HMS PRINCESS CHARLOTTE WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE APRIL 1841 AGED 17 YEARS. THIS MONUMENT WAS ERECTED BY ADM THE HON ROBERT STOFFORD.CAP FANSHAWE AND THE OFFICERS OF HIS SHIP AS A MEMORIAL OF THEIR FRIENDSHIP AND ESTEEM
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LIEUT. COMMISSIONER W. B. PALMER BORN 6TH OCTOBER 1864 PROMOTED TO GLORY [SERVICE?] 24TH JULY 1931
COMMISSIONER ROBERT HOGGARD BORN 16TH NOVEMBER [year unclear] PROMOTED TO GLORY 18TH JANUARY 1934 A LOVED... SOLDIER
MRS COMMISSIONER MINNIE HOGGARD BORN 21ST DECEMBER 1862 PROMOTED TO GLORY 24TH OCTOBER 1947
[There appears to be text about another family member at the bottom] BORN 22ND FEBRUARY 1897 PROMOTED TO GLORY 24TH OCTOBER 1947