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stances; and it must generally be admitted, that 
the appointment to high civil offices of men 
To the Memory of 
Thomas, Earl of Effingham, Baron Howard, 
Captain-General and Chief Governor of this Island, 
in the years 1790 and 1791; 
And of Katherine his Wife. 
The latter, departed this life on the 13th day of October, 1791, 
In a voyage undertaken for the benefit of her health, 
in His Majesty’s ship Diana : 
The former, on the 19th of the following month, 
The third week after the melancholy return of the Diana 
with the remains »f his beloved Consort, 
whom he seemed unwilling to survive, 
And with whom he was deposited in the same graye. 
Thus, united in their lives 
by the most tender and exalted ties,— 
He—the fond and indulgent Husband,— 
She—the cheerful and obedient Wife,— 
In their deaths they were not divided! 
To perpetuate the remembrance 
of so illustrious a pattern of conjugal affection : 
To manifest the public sense 
of the many public and private virtues of their respected Governor; 
And to record, for the benefit of posterity, 
The clearness of that sagacity, 
The extent of that knowledge. 
And the purity and firmness of that integrity, 
which rendered his administration 
The boast and security of a grateful people. 
The Assembly of Jamaica, 
having caused the remains of this noble and 
lamented pair to. be interred with funeral honours 
at the public expense, the whole House 
attending each procession as Mourners, 
As a farther testimony of merited esteem 
Inscribe this Monument, 
