68 TOMB OF BLIGH AND HIS TAMILY. 
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 OF 
WILLIAM BLIGH, ESQ. F.R.S. 
VICE-ADMIRAL OF THE BLUE, 
THE CELEBRATED NAVIGATOR; 
WHO FIRST TRANSPLANTED THE BREAD-FRUIT TREB 
FROM OTAHEITE TO THE WEST INDIES J 
BRAVELY FOUGHT THE BATTLES OF HIS COUNTRY; 
AND DIED BELOVED, RESPECTED, AND LAMENTED, 
ON THE7TH DAT OF DECEMBER, 1817, 
AGED 64. 
