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 Gurney, stands under 

 Chantrey's medallion of Young in Westminster Abbey. 

 It runs thus : 



BACHED TO THE MEMORY Off 



THOMAS YOUNG, M.D., 



FELLOW AND FOREIGN 6ECBETABY OP THE EOYAt SOCIETY, 

 MEMBER OP THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OP FKANCE ; 



A MAN ALIKE EMINENT 

 IN ALMOST EVERY DEPAETMENT OP HUMAN LEABNINO 



PATIENT OP UNINTERMITTED LABOUR, 

 ENDOWED WITH THE FACULTY OP INTUITIVE PERCEPTION, 



WHO, BRINGING AN EQUAL MASTEBY 

 TO THE MOST ABSTRUSE INVESTIGATIONS 



OP LETTERS AND OF SCIENCE, 



FIIIST ESTABLISHED THE UNDULATORY THEORY OP LIGHT, 



AND FIEST PENETRATED THE OBSCURITY 



WHICH HAD VEILED FOB AGES 



TUB HIEROGLYPHICS OF EGYPT. 



ENDEARED TO HIS FRIENDS BY HIS DOMESTIC VIRTUES, 

 HONOURED BY THE WORLD FOR HIS UNRIVALLED ACQUIREMENT^ 

 UK DIED IN THE HOPES OP THE RESURRECTION OF T1IE JUST. 



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



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



to THE 56TH YEAB OF HIS AGJB. 



