Location
Set into the floor in the north east section of St. Thomas's Chapel (see Cathedral Plan).
Memorial
Inscription
HERE LIETH THE BODY OF
THOMAS HANWAY WHO FAITHFULLY
SERVED THE GOVERNMENT 22 YEARS IN
THE NAVY AND VICTUALLING OFFICE.
HE WAS A TRUE FRIEND
AND MOST AFFECTIONATE BROTHER, A
DUTIFUL SON, A LOVING HUSBAND
A KIND FAITHFUL AND MOST LOYALL
SUBJECT, WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE THE
12TH JULY 1711 AGED 42 YEARS
Also Mary his Wife
who after a life of Joy, Affliction &
repose, employed in piety & resignation
in gentleness & charity, in maternal
tenderness & care, was freed from the
chains of mortality in Feb. 1755
Aged 76
Reader consider & prepare to die
THOMAS HANWAY WHO FAITHFULLY
SERVED THE GOVERNMENT 22 YEARS IN
THE NAVY AND VICTUALLING OFFICE.
HE WAS A TRUE FRIEND
AND MOST AFFECTIONATE BROTHER, A
DUTIFUL SON, A LOVING HUSBAND
A KIND FAITHFUL AND MOST LOYALL
SUBJECT, WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE THE
12TH JULY 1711 AGED 42 YEARS
Also Mary his Wife
who after a life of Joy, Affliction &
repose, employed in piety & resignation
in gentleness & charity, in maternal
tenderness & care, was freed from the
chains of mortality in Feb. 1755
Aged 76
Reader consider & prepare to die
Further Information
Thomas Hanway died when he fell from his horse, leaving his son Jonas to be brought up by his wife Mary. Jonas Hanway grew up to be an adventurer and merchant in London who spent his later years on good works there.
The Burial register of St. Thomas's Church records the date of death for Thomas Hanway as 15 July 1714, rather than 12 July 1711 as shown on the inscription. The entry for his son Jonas in the Dictionary of National Biography, 2004, OUP also gives his date of death as 1714 [info courtesy of Laurence Chase].
See Wikipedia for a biography of Jonas Hanway.
