806 THOMAS YOUNG. 



Within the walls of the village church of Farn- 

 borough, Kent, in the family vault of his wife, lie the 

 remains of Thomas Young. On the church wall is a 

 white marble slab with an inscription, the original of 

 which, composed by Mr. Hudson Grurney, stands under 

 Chantrey's medallion of Young in Westminster Abbey. 

 It runs thus : 



BACRED TO THE MEMOBY OF 



THOMAS YOUNG, M.D., 



FELLOW AND FOREIGN SECBETARY OP THE EOYAL SOCIETY, 

 MEMBER OP THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OP FBANOE ; 



A MAN ALIKE EMINENT 

 IN ALMOST EVERY DEPABTMENT OP HUMAN LEABNING. 



PATIENT OP UNINTEBMITTED LABOUR, 

 ENDOWED WITH THE FACULTY OP INTUITIVE PERCEPTION, 



WHO, BRINGING AN EQUAL MASTERY 

 TO THE MOST ABSTRUSE INVESTIGATIONS 



OF LETTERS AND OP SCIENCE, 



FIRST ESTABLISHED THE UNDULATORY THEORY OP LIGHT, 



AND FIRST PENETRATED THE OBSCURITY 



WHICH HAD VEILED FOB AGES 



THE HIEKOGLYPHICS OF EGYPT. 



ENDEARED TO HIS FRIENDS BY HIS DOMESTIC VIRTUES, 

 HONOURED BY THE WORLD FOR HIS UNRIVALLED ACQUIREMENTS, 

 BE DIED IN THE HOPES OF THE RESURRECTION OF THE JUST. 



BORN AT MILVERTON, IN SOMERSETSHIRE, JUNE 13TH, 1773; 

 DIED IN PARK SQUARE, LONDON, MAY 10TH, 1829 

 IK THE 66TH YEAR OF HIS AGB. 



