David Carnegie Andrew Agnew

“ New earths — new heavens to descry;
She gave (the utmost that her love could do)
Tears to every feeling true, —
Those that with gushing flood the countenance o'erflow
Where boisterous passions glow —
And those more mild and meek
Which trembling eyelids pour
In trickling shower
Down the changing cheek. ”

“ James Six, the only son of the Fellow of the Royal Society, was born at Canterbury in 1757. His natural abilities and success in his studies led his father to send him to Cambridge, where he was of Trinity College B.A., 1778 ; M.A., 1781. He had the reputation of being a great linguist, having mastered Hebrew, Greek, Latin, Italian, French, and German. During his academical course he obtained prizes in mathematics as well as in classics. Like his father, he excelled in drawing. ”

“ He travelled a second time, and at Rome he caught a fever, of which he died on 14th December 1786. There he was buried with peculiar honours in presence of the English visitors, and notwithstanding the general strictness of the Romish Church, the English funeral service was read over him by Rev. Dr. Walsby, chaplain to the Duke of Gloucester. Sir Thomas Stanley erected a monument over his grave. His parents placed an elegant marble tablet in the Church of the Holy Cross, Canterbury, with this epitaph ”