Image: StringerLawrence MuralMonument DunchideockChurch Devon

Description: Mural monument to Major-General Stringer Lawrence (1697-1775), Dunchideock Church, Devon. By William Tyler, like his monument in Westminster Abbey. (per A Short Guide for the Visitor to St Michael's Church Dunchideock, 2015, p.5) Erected by Sir Robert Palk, it displays three groups of inscriptions. At the top on black marble, beneath his portrait bust of white marble, is shown a copy of the inscription in Westminster Abbey: "For discipline established, fortresses protected, settlements extended, French and Indian armies defeated, and peace concluded in the Carnatic. Mon. by E.I.C, Westmr Abbey".In the middle on a rhomboid tablet of white marble, beneath a cornice on which are placed items forming a trophy of arms, namely a turban, a captured standard, a drum and a heraldic escutcheon, is inscribed on white marble: " Major General Stringer Lawrence who commanded in India from 1747 to 1767. Died 10th Jany 1775 aged 78. The desperate state of affairs in India becoming prosperous by a series of victories endeared him to his country. History has recorded his fame. The regrets of the worthy bear testimony to his virtues. Cui pudor & justitiae soror incorrupta fides nudaque veritas quando ullum invenient parem ("When shall Reverence and the sister of Justice, untainted Honour, and naked Truth, ever find one to be his peer?" (Translation from: Lonsdale & Lee (eds.), Works of Horace Rendered into English Prose, Globe Edition, London, 1900, p.37) From Horace, Carminum (Odes), Book I, Carmen XXIV Ad Virgilium, lines 6-8)At the base is a verse by Hannah More, the religious writer and philanthropist (the monument states erroneously "A. More" (per church leaflet)): Born to command, to conquer and to spare, As Mercy mild, yet terrible as War, Here LAWRENCE rests: the trump of honest fame, From Thames to Ganges has proclaimed his name. In vain this frail memorial friendship rears, His dearest monuments: an army's tears. His deeds on fairer columns stand engrav'd, In provinces preserv'd and cities sav'd."
Title: StringerLawrence MuralMonument DunchideockChurch Devon
Credit: Self-photographed
Author: (Lobsterthermidor (talk) 20:15, 30 July 2015 (UTC))
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