58 DEATH OF BLIGH. 
The remains of Admiral Bligh were buried in 
a vault in the churchyard of the parish church of 
St. Mary, Lambeth. On the south side of the 
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, 
and who is described in her epitaph as a good 
daughter, wife, and mother ; the bodies of 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 grand- 
child, W. Bligh Barker, who died October, 1805, 
aged three years. 
The following inscription appears on the wes 
side of the tomb : 
TO THE MEMORY OF 
WILLIAM BLIGH, ESQ. F.K.S. 
VICE-ADMIRAL OF THE BLUE, 
THE CELEBRATED NAVIGATOR, 
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 7'i'H DAY OF DECEMBER, 1817, 
AGED 64. 
