68 TOMB OP BLIGH AND HIS FAMILY. 
church is his tomb, which has been repaired and 
restored by the Society of Arts. In the family 
vault beneath this tomb, also lie interred the 
remains of Elizabeth Bligh, his wife, who died 
in April 1812, in the sixtieth year of her age. 
She is described in her epitaph as a good daugh- 
ter, wife, and mother. Two sons, twins, who 
died in 1795, aged one day; a daughter, Anne 
Campbell Bligh, who died November 1, 1844, 
aged' fifty- nine ; and a grandchild, W. Bligh 
Barker, who died October, 1805, aged three 
years, rest in the same vault. 
The following inscription appears on the west 
side of the tomb: — 
TO THE MEMORY OP 
WILLIAM BLIGH, ESQ. F.R.S. 
VICE-ADMIRAL OF THE BLUE, 
THE CELEBRATED KAVIGATOR ; 
WHO FIRST TRANSPLANTED THE BREAD-FRUIT TREE 
FROM OTAHEITE TO THE WEST INDIES ; 
BRAVELY FOUGHT THE BATTLES OF HIS COUNTRY; 
AND DIED BELOVED, RESPECTED, AND LAMENTED, 
ON THE 7TH DAT OF DECEMBER, 1817, 
AGED 64. 
