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English: Inscription on old headstone, Loch Lee side The inscription appears to be a copy of a tablet once contained in St Anne's Church Wardour St, London to commemorate the King of Corsica! Richard Jones' London Walking Tours www.walksoflondon.co.uk/47/the-final-section-of-our-.shtml
"Continue ahead along Brewer Street and turn right into Wardour Street. Pause a little way along on the left to admire the strange beer-barrel shape of the church tower on the left. This is all that remains of St Annes Church, where Lucie Manette was married in A Tale of Two Cities. The church itself was destroyed by bombing in World War Two. It had been dedicated to Queen Anne by her tutor, Henry Compton, Bishop of London, who gave his name to nearby Old Compton Street. It was built by Sir Christopher Wren and its peculiar beer-barrel-shape church tower, was added by the equally eccentric sounding Samuel Pepys Cockerell. On the wall to the right of the tower is a tablet commemorating Theodore, King of Corsica, "who died in this parish December 11, 1756." Forced from his kingdom, Theodore sought asylum in London but was soon imprisoned for debt. The epitaph on the wall was composed by the writer Horace Walpole, and reads:- The grave, great teacher, to a level brings heroes and beggars, galley slaves and kings but Theodore this moral learnt ere dead fate poured its lessons on his living head bestowed a Kingdom and denied him bread." |
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