David Carnegie Andrew Agnew

“ Beaufort’s peculiarly conciliating politeness increased the power and effect of his benevolence, not only upon the highest but upon the lowest class of his friends, acquaintances, and parishioners. He lived to be an example of uncommon intellectual vigour in advanced age. When he was nearly eighty-three, in the last year of his life, he was occupied in preparing from a large mass of materials an improved edition of the Memoir accompanying his Map. His sight was so acute that he could, at that age, superintend the most delicate revisions of his Map. ”

“ During his long life he did little for himself, much for others — nothing for money, scarcely anything for fame — much for his country, more for virtue and religion. In disturbed times, and in a country where political and religious dissensions have unhappily prevailed, he was eminently serviceable, combining, as he did, judicious loyalty with the virtues of a Christian and of a Protestant clergyman, and with the talents and manners of an accomplished gentleman. ”

“ The church of Collon is built on the model of King’s College, Cambridge; it surprises and delights the English traveller, and may well gratify, as it does, the national pride of the sister country. Dr. Beaufort was one of those who first proposed a Royal Irish Academy, and actively assisted in the formation and in the regulation of that Institution, of which he was one of the earliest members. To the establishment and improvements of the Sunday Schools in Dublin, he contributed essentially by his personal exertions and constant attendance ”