APRIL XXIVV MDCCCXII.
DIED
AT HER HOUSE IN CHARLES STREET,
NEAR BERKELEY SQUARE, LONDON,
WHERE SHE RESIDED ALTERNATLY WITH
HER SEAT AT GREAT BOOKHAM IN SURREY,
FOR A PERIOD OF ABOVE THIRTY-FIVE YEARS
HAPPY AND RESPECTED
AFTER AN ILLNESS OF THREE WEEKS,
AT MIDNIGHT
OF THE TWENTY-FOURTH OF APRIL,
MDCCCXII,
IN THE PRESENCE OF ALL HER FIVE CHILDREN,
AND OF THREE OF HER OLD AND FAITHFUL ATTENDANTS,
IN THE SEVENTY-THIRD YEAR OF HER AGE,
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE,
LORA
BURTON DAWNAY
VISCOUNTESS DOWNE,
WIDOW OF JOHN DAWNAY, FOURTH VISCOUNTESS DOWNE,
MOTHER OF THE FIFTH VISCOUNT AND OTHER CHILDREN,
AND ONLY CHILD AND HEIR OF WILLIAM BURTON, ESQUIRE
OF ASHWELL, RUTLAND
BY HIS WIFE ELIZABETH PITT, DAUGHTER OF GEORGE PITT
OF STRATHFIELDSAY,
BY HIS SECOND WIFE, LORA GREY OF KINGSTON, DORSET.
FOR HER CHARACTER AND OTHER PARTICULARS
SEE THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE FOR MAY MDCCCXII,
FROM WHICH THE FOLLOWING IS AN EXTRACT:
A REAL UNPRETENDING AND ALMOST UNCONSCIOUS GOOD SENSE
AND A FIRM DESIRE TO ACT RIGHT UPON ALL OCCASIONS
TO THE BEST OF HER JUDGEMENT,
WERE HER MOST DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERISTICS.
ACTIVITY OF MIND AND BODY, SOUND HEALTH, CHEERFUL MANNERS,
THE OPEN CONFIDENCE OF AN HONEST MIND,
THE LIVELY SERENITY OF AN EASY CONSCIENCE,
WITH A BENEVOLENT DISPOSITION
AND HEREDITARY PERSONAL GRACES BOTH OF FORM AND FACE,
WHICH EVEN IN AGE HAD NOT DISSAPEARED,
COMPLETE HER PICTURE.
ONE THAT ON EVERYDAY YOU MAY NOT MEET,
KIND, HANDSOME, HONEST, CHEERFUL AND DISCREET;
AS DAUGHTER, WIFE, AND MOTHER JUSTLY LOVED,
BY ALL WHO KNEW, RESPECTED AND APPROVED.
GOOD SENSE, GOOD MANNERS, OPEN AND SINCERE,
AND GENEROUS VIRTUE MARK'D HER LONG CAREER
SUPERIOR IN HER CHARACTER TO MOST.
SHE LIVED WITH OTHERS WITHOUT PRIDE OR BOAST:
WITH BEST PRETENSIONS TOOK THE HUMBLEST PART,
AND SHEW'D HER SCHOOLING HAD BEEN OF THE HEART.
NUNC VICESIMUS ANNUS ATQUE NONUE,
HOC A TEMPORE LABITUR SILENTER.
VIVIT SCENA, TAMEN, FIGURA VIVIT,
ET VIVAX MANET INSEPULTA VIRTUS.
Buried at Snaith in this county, Hon. MD.Langley 3rd son, placed this tablet, 1841 aet 64.