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benevolent disposition. His manners were simple and unosten- 
tatious. He mixed but little in general society, but preferred the 
home delights of his own fireside, and the engagements of his study. 
When his death was announced in Cumberland, it created a wide- 
spread feeling of genuine sorrow. His loss, too; was keenly felt 
by all who had been objects of his unstinted bounty, of whom 
there were many both in this county and elsewhere. 
Captain Huddart was interred on the 28th August, in St. 
Martin’s Church, Westminster. A white marble monument, by 
Fontano, of Carrara, is erected to his memory in the Chapel of 
Ease of his native village—Allonby, the inscription on which reads 
as follows :— ; 
Sacred to the Memory of 
CAPTAIN JOSEPH HUDDART, F.R.S., 
formerly of the 
Honourable East India Company’s Service, and one of the 
Elder Brethren of the Corporation of the Trinity 
House, London. 
He was born at this place, 
11th January, 1741, 
And died at Highbury Terrace, near London, 
August 19th, 1816. 
He has left a Memorial of his Fame far more lasting than 
this Monument, in those numerous Works of 
Science, by which he has done Honour to 
his Country, benefitted Commerce, 
and improved Navigation. 
“‘ Unto whom much is given, of them shall much be required,” 
And of him it may be truly said that the pre-eminent 
Powers of his Mind, and his superior Acquirements in 
Mathematics, Mechanics, and Astronomy, were 
unceasingly devoted to the Services of Humanity, 
by pointing out a 
more secure Path in the trackless Deep, 
And by increasing the Facilities and lessening the Dangers 
of those who go down to the Sea in Ships and 
occupy their Business in great Waters. 
These men see the Wonders in the Deep. 
They were strongly impressed on his capacious Mind; he 
saw and acknowledged in them the wondrous Works 
of God, and meekly trusting in the Merits of his 
Saviour, closed a life of unblemished 
Integrity, 
in the 75th Year of his Age. 
His only surviving Son erected this Monument in commemoration 
of those Virtues which endeared him in all the 
Relations of private life, 
