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[41909] St Mary, Nottingham : Generous without Ostentation

St Mary, High Pavement, Nottingham.

Memorial to Rev Lawrence Whitaker (d1769).

 

As a due TRIBUTE To the Memory OF The Rev LAWRENCE WHITAKER Descended from an ancient Family in Lancashire

This Monument is erected.

He early pursued his Studies in Divinity, Was CURATE of this Church, fifteen Years AND ON The fourth Day of June MDCCLXIX, Exchang’d this transitory Life For a glorious Immortality, At Matlock in DERBYSHIRE Where his Remains were with Reverence deposited.

He possessed many Virtues Was strict of Life, but easy in Converse, Courteous, yet Sincere; Humble without Meanness, Devout without Superstition, Generous without Ostentation; And died, as he had liv’d In perfect Charity with all Mankind, In the 46th Year of his Age, And the 23rd of his Ministry.

 

Vivit post Funera Virtus.

 

 

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